All entries tagged: Nielsen Online
NYT’s Keller: “What you can do with less, is less”
When I was in San Francisco for ONA, a kind reader offered a blunt critique of my reporting: “You know, every time The New York Times sneezes, it isn’t news.” He’s right, and yet, here’s another post in which the Gray Lady clears her nose: Bill Keller, the Times’ executive editor who’s becoming a regular [...]
Look who’s hiring journalists at ONA 2009
As the digerati arrived in San Francisco yesterday for the Online News Association’s annual conference, I stopped by the job fair to see who was looking for recruits in this awful journalism job market. Oh, there were some old standbys — among them, Gannett Co. and The New York Times — but the busiest and [...]
NAA/Nielsen stats show newspapers own less than 1 percent of U.S. online audience page views, time spent
The NAA has issued another of its regular updates on the state of the U.S. daily newspaper Web audience. As usual, the numbers, sourced from Nielsen Online, sound impressive:
Newspaper Web sites attracted more than 70.3 million unique visitors in June (35.9 percent of all Internet users), according to a custom analysis provided by Nielsen Online [...]
How an errant vowel sent 3 million people to The Wichita Eagle, and why the paper couldn’t cash in
The Wichita Eagle’s Kansas.com was the 15th-most-visited American newspaper site in February, according to Nielsen Online. That’s remarkable, considering that the Eagle has never previously cracked the top 30.
What happened? A prominent link on Yahoo’s front page February 13 caused an astounding wave of traffic to the Eagle’s 389-word story about a student who caught [...]
Top 15 of 2008: The leading regional newspaper sites shuffle their ranks
Yesterday we named the top 15 newspaper sites of 2008 (judging by average monthly unique visitors) and took a closer look at the five national papers that lead the list. In the next tier are six regional newspaper sites that showed impressive growth last year.
Top 15 of 2008: A closer look at the national newspaper sites
This morning we revealed the top 15 newspaper websites of 2008 as ranked by average monthly unique visitors. Now let’s take a closer look first at the top five national newspapers. (Note that the y-axis in the chart above starts at 3,000,000 uniques to get a sense of the finer fluctuations among these sites; think [...]
Top 15 newspaper sites of 2008
The data is in, and we’re ready to declare the top 15 newspaper websites of 2008! It was a hard-fought battle in a year that saw visitors to all newspaper sites rise by 12.1 percent from the year prior. We’ve ranked the top 15 by average monthly unique visitors, according to Nielsen Online, which is [...]








