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A Nielsen Online data report for April has suggested that Internet users are yet to spend a significant time reading newspaper sites.  An individual spends an average of eleven minutes a month on the top 30 US newspaper sites.  Only half of these papers succeeded in increasing the amount of time spent per person on their sites in the past month.  

Somewhat surprisingly perhaps, the Minneapolis paper, the Star Tribune keeps viewers reading its website for longer than any other US paper.  The site clocks up an average of 40 minutes a month per reader on the site, surpassing the nationals such as USToday.com, NYTimes.com and WSJ.com.

According to new data from Nielsen Online, American newspaper websites reported increased traffic this February. More than half of the top 30 newspaper websites achieved double-digit percentages of visitors.

The New York Times reports the most web traffic: 20,126,000 unique visitors this February, a 6% increase in visitors over February 2008. USAToday.com comes in second with 13, 430,000 and attributes its 25% increase over last February to the site's Tech sections and popular stories including the economic stimulus package, the Octuplet mom, and Rihanna.

The number of British people accessing the Internet via mobile rose by 25% in the third quarter of 2008, Nielsen Online report.

The study, Mobile Media View, highlighted that mobile internet use is increasing eight times faster than PC-based internet growth, growing from 5.8 million to 7.3 million between the second and third quarters of 2008.

The most popular site is BBC News, which is visited by 24% of British mobile internet users, then BBC Weather, Sky Sports and Gmail. On computers, Google Search (23%) and eBay (43%) are the most popular.

According to Editor & Publisher's Jennifer Saba, newspaper Web site traffic increased the amount of unique users, year-over-year, a Nielsen study reported.

Dallas Morning News traffic grew by 156 % to 3.2 million unique users since May 2007, which Saba says is thanks to "search-engine optimization and the Yahoo alliance."

The Politico's traffic increased by a whopping 262 % to 3.5 million since May 2007, most likely due to interest in the current presidential campaigns.

Similarly, newspaper sites like those for Minneapolis's Star Tribune, the New York DailyNews and Atlanta's Journal-Constitution all experienced an increase in unique users.

A number of sites such as those for the San Francisco Chronicle and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer have decreased unique users, by 10% and by 12% respectively.

Source: Editor & Publisher

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US: Nielsen Online: Increasing traffic for newspaper websites

U.S. newspaper websites are growing in popularity, a Nielsen Online study suggests. Compared to results from an identical study from April 2007, only seven of the top 30 newspaper websites experienced declines in traffic while several others grew significantly.

Three of the top five sites - NYtimes.com, LAtimes.com, and the Wall Street Journal Online - increased traffic over 30 percent. The Dallas Morning News' site, DallasNews.com, grew the most, increasing its traffic by 88 percent.

Other big winners include OregonLive.com (The Oregonian, 63 percent), ajc.com (The Atlanta Journal Constitution, 52 percent), and BaltimoreSun.com (The Baltimore Sun, 38 percent).

The full list can be found below on the Editor & Publisher website.

Source: Editor & Publisher through MediaWeek

Rue89, an online-only news site launched in May 2007 by a group of former journalists at Libération, has been one of the year's success stories in the French media landscape (over 650,000 unique visitors monthly, Nielsen).

Its founder, Pierre Haski, will discuss the site's path to success, as well as the new ethical standards that arise on the Web, at the upcoming World Editors Forum to be held in Gothenburg, Sweden, from June 1 to 4.

(See our previous interview with Haski, who details the pro-am news process of the Web 2.0 site.)

According to him, Rue89 was launched in response to two crises of the press in France: the economic - structural - downturn of the daily press and the increasing disconnect between traditional journalists and their readers. "The idea was that there is (still) on the Web an essential role for journalists," said Haski. Along with his colleagues, who all had blogs, "We realized that blogs - and the Internet - were a way to reconnect and reestablish this (lost) link with readers."

Since then, the website has regularly come up with scoops and gained a solid reputation among traditional media outlets.

Haski will also discuss the new ethical issues that have arisen with online news. "The Web mustn't be a lawless, right-less arena," said Haski. "The rule ands laws that usually apply must also be applied to the Web," he said, citing the right to privacy and defamation. In other words, the - print - journalistic principles he and his team adhere to must be upheld online.

The difficulty, of course, is adapting these standards to the new practices of the Web.

A recent legal suit in France illustrates very well the range of new media issues that have yet to be resolved. In the Fuzz affair, as it is known, a French actor launched a suit against a flurry of blogs and sites, including buzz-aggregating site Fuzz.fr, after it linked back to a gossip story that claimed the actor was back in a relationship.

Fuzz.fr was eventually shut down, after the court decided it had served as a relay point for the contentious information.

Should aggregators be liable for the links posted on their site, even if generated by the community? According to Haski, although he has no definite answer, "It doesn't seem tolerable to hide oneself behind a robot that crawls the Web."

These new practices also affect traditional media's habits in some cases: a blogger, hosted by the site of the weekly Nouvel Observateur, was literally copy-pasting whole articles from Rue89. Because nouvelobs.com's traffic is significant, the blogger's posts actually ranked higher than Rue89 on Google. The blog was eventually shuttered, but only after Rue89 signaled this to the Nouvel Observateur.

"These practices are very surprising because they come from companies that are themselves very careful about their intellectual property," said Haski.

Although the blog was swiftly shut down, Haski was surprised to see that some traditional media loosen their editorial practices for content on the Web.

"Our starting point, and ending point, is that there are professional and deontological rules that exist on other platforms, which should also exist on the Web," said Haski.

"We set a rule at the start that no content would be published online if it hadn't been previously checked by a professional journalist."


Haski will speak at the World Editors Forum, to be held in Gothenburg, Sweden, June 1-4. Other preview interviews available here.

Source: Pierre Haski, founder Rue89.com

Paul Farhi, a Washington Post reporter says, “the online newspaper audience seems to have all but stopped growing.”

The rate of growth of UK’s top three national newspaper websites is three times that of overall UK internet growth.

The Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC), the major US newspaper audit group, has announced plans to start counting online readership in addition to print circulation of US papers.

The Newspaper Association of America (NAA) recently found that, contrary to what many think, young readership of newspapers is actually increasing - when taking newspaper websites into account. Readership increased 13.7% for ages 25 to 34, and 9.2% for ages 18 to 24 in the last year.

According to a report by Nielsen / NetRatings for the Newspaper Association of America (NAA), the average unique audience for newspaper websites increased 22% in 2006, adding 10 million new online newspaper readers.

Although it is well documented that newspaper circulations have been declining for years, a slide that does not seem will reverse itself soon, it has been shown that newspaper website usage has been rising rapidly. But does their digital readership make up for the loss in print? Will sustainable online financial models emerge? Will the Internet change newspaper journalism?