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While newspaper circulation dropped 2.5 percent in the six-month period ending in March, newspaper websites had an eight percent increase in viewers for the first quarter of 2006, according to the Newspaper Association of America’s analysis of data released yesterday by the Audit Bureau of Circulations, writes Yahoo.
Also, data from Nielsen/NetRatings found that an average 56 million people used newspaper websites in the period, representing 37 percent of all online access for the period, said the NAA.
The Audit Bureau data found that USA Today continued as the top-selling newspaper with 2,272,815 copies, a 0.09 percent increase over the same period last year. The Wall Street Journal followed in second with 2,049,786 copies, dropping 1 percent.
The New York Times and Chicago Tribune saw circulation gains of 0.5 percent and 0.9 percent respectively. However, circulations dropped for the San Francisco Chronicle (15.6 percent), The Boston Globe (8.5 percent), the Los Angeles Times (5.4 percent) and The Washington Post (3.7 percent).
All sectors of the media business will suffer from the weakened economy in 2008 and 2009, with a slump in local advertising particularly hurting newspapers and local TV, according to a new projection from Goldman Sachs.
Broadcast nets will experience…
The New York Times is shuttering its International Herald Tribune site; NYTimes.com will soon host the international news normally reserved for its sister website.
The move is not about cost savings, but rather about growth, NYTimes.com general manager Vivian Schiller…
Unilever’s Vaseline set forth on an unusual research project in a small town in Alaska. Setting up a storefront, the company began giving away free bottles of lotion and asking recipients to name the person who had recommended they come…
Meet the Press, the show hosted by Tim Russert for 17 years before his death last June, is beginning to slip in ratings.
Last month, CBS’s Face the Nation pulled ahead of Meet the Press for the first time in two…
Bloggers collectively create nearly one million blog posts each day, and half of bloggers believe blogs will be a primary source of news and entertainment in the next five years, according to Technorati’s 2008 State of the Blogosphere Report, MarketingCharts writes.…
Wal-Mart and Costco reported same-store gains in September, with sales rising 2.4% and 9% respectively. Sales at Target stores open at least a year fell 3%, writes Retailer Daily.
Below, fiscal results from the discount retail giants:
Sales of food and…
