Comments on: TPM and FiveThirtyEight: Huge audience, just a handful of salaries

By: Why young reporters need to get past their institutional mindsets; or, how reporters are like priests » Nieman Journalism Lab

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:00:41 +0000

[...] like printing presses and buildings and circulation departments — are now an albatross. Three smart guys can draw a bigger and more engaged audience than a newsroom of [...]

By: TPM sees dollars in online video » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:03:27 +0000

[...] represents a new tack by TPM’s small advertising team to compete with the larger news sites whose traffic they now rival. (Yesterday the company began searching for a director of ad [...]

By: News sites’ plans for election day » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:42:09 +0000

[...] This is an interesting moment for Talking Points Memo. The new-media darling has garnered big-media traffic throughout the campaign, and they clearly want to be your first destination for election news [...]

By: Andrew Golis » Blog Archive » How TPM metrics stack up against newspapers.

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:31:05 +0000

[...] From NJL: Two top sites for political junkies, FiveThirtyEight and Talking Points Memo, have announced their October stats, and they’re astounding. To put them in context, I’m inserting them into E&P’s list of top newspaper sites’ unique-visitor totals for September. (October numbers for the newspapers won’t be out for a couple weeks.) New York Times: 20.07 million unique visitors Washington Post: 12.96 million USA Today: 11.44 million LA Times: 10.02 million Wall Street Journal: 9.05 million Boston Globe: 8.61 million San Francisco Chronicle: 5.13 million New York Post: 4.82 million Politico: 4.61 million Chicago Tribune: 4.56 million New York Daily News: 4.44 million Dallas Morning News: 3.78 million Chicago Sun-Times: 3.68 million FiveThirtyEight: 3.63 million Houston Chronicle: 3.40 million Talking Points Memo: 3.12 million Newsday: 3.05 million International Herald Tribune: 2.94 million Washington Times: 2.41 million Philadelphia Inquirer/Daily News: 2.33 million Seattle Times: 2.26 million [...]