The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle and Washingtonpost.com have the highest adult penetration in their local markets among printed newspapers and newspaper websites, according to (pdf) a new Scarborough Research report, writes MarketingCharts. The Scarborough Newspaper Penetration Report features print, website, and Integrated Newspaper Audience (INA) ratings (defined as the weekly net unduplicated audience of the printed newspaper and its website), and covers data collected from August 2006 to September 2007. See tables of the top 5 print, web and integrated weekly newspaper audiences. Rochester Democrat & Chronicle ranks number one in local market (DMA) adult penetration for print audience and Integrated Newspaper Audience:
Washingtonpost.com is the newspaper website with the greatest local penetration, according to the report. Almost one-quarter (22 percent) of adults in the Washington, DC, local market had visited the website in the previous week.
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