Wikipedia ranks first for online news
According to Nielsen//NetRatings, the encyclopedia site Wikipedia is the top news and information destination on the Internet, gaining 20 million unique monthly users in the past year.
In the news and information category, NetRatings found that Wikipedia was the most frequented site during nearly every month this year. In May, Wikipedia boasted 46.8 million unique visitors, a 72 percent increase from June 2006.
Wikipedia, which is owned by the nonprofit group Wikimedia Foundation Inc., is a user-run site. Editors and administrators edit content constantly, as the open-access format sometimes leads to acts of online vandalism or the posting of inaccurate or inappropriate information. While this feature sometimes draws criticism, the ability to update the site in nearly real-time has made Wikipedia one of the most popular sources for breaking major news stories, such as the April 2007 shootings at Virginia Tech University and the July 2005 London bombings.
Source: Reuters
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I can go along with this, I think: If you've been reading your stock listings in the paper for years, it's a shame to lose that habit. But more importantly, new media gurus like to tell us that news is all about community these days, and these non-web readers are as much an important part of the community than the youngsters who read the online edition.
At least the stock readers pay for their content ;-)
Oh and TV listings are also thought to be for the chop - that risks alienating the slippers-and-cup-of-tea community who like to check the evening's telly from my sofa, not from my Mac. I suppose with the explosion of tv channels, it will become very difficult for newspaper listings to cover everything, but there will still be an audience for TV highlights aimed at the newspapers typical readership. Guardian readers might be interested in History Channel documentaries about African famine, Sun readers might want to know about nude wrestling on Men'n'Motors.
I can see the case for dropping stock pages and TV listings, but come on, these are soft targets. It's hardly radical. Let's hear something a little more daring from the new media evangelists!