A Call for Newspaper Research

We've been happily surprised by the response to our recent newspaper study.  The most exciting part has been the additional research that other bloggers have performed in their home countries.  So far, sister studies have been performed in Italy, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.  The response is an example of all that is great about the Internet....

New Zealand Newspapers

We found another study of international newspapers this morning, this time from New Zealand.  Web designer and journalist Fraser Mills saw our study of US papers as well as the Italian study and UK study, and decided to do some research of his own.  Here is his chart summarizing his results:

Fraser's results help to reiterate our theory that the US is leading the pack in terms of Web use by newspapers....

Newspapers in the UK

We received some more help this morning in our newspaper research.  This time, it came from the UK, where BBC English Regions Community Producer Robin Hamman put together some research looking at the UK's top 11 newspapers.  Here is a chart summarizing his findings (click on the graph for a larger view):

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Newspaper Study on MediaShift

Mark Glaser of the PBS blog MediaShift gave our newspaper study a nice shoutout today.  Here's an excerpt from the article he wrote about us:

"Though newspaper websites have been around for a decade, they’ve often been slow to innovate, and have been mainly used for “shovelware” —...

The Use of the Internet by America’s Newspapers: Highlights

After finishing our study of America's top 100 newspapers and their use of the Web, I took a closer at the top 20 most circulated papers and tried to pick a few favorites. To be honest, this was a difficult task. Most newspaper websites are adequate and have similar formats....