The Use of the Internet by Japanese Newspapers

As a complement to our study on the use of Web 2.0 tactics by the top 100 U.S. newspaper, we took a look at how the twenty largest Japanese newspapers are using the Internet.  Overall, we found that Japanese papers are not taking aggressive Web strategies (except when it comes to cell phones),...

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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Italian Newspaper Study

After we published our study of America's newspapers last week, it was picked up by many international blogs, and compared to newspapers in several countries, including Brazil, Denmark, and Italy.

We found the following Italian blog post, which reports the findings of a new study that examined the top 50 Italian newspapers,...