New York Times Traffic Surges

Mathew Ingram yesterday proclaimed that "free is better" when it comes to news sites, and he offered new evidence to support this assertion.

He pointed to web traffic data of the New York Time's website that TechCrunch analyzed.  According to comScore data, traffic to the paper's site has surged since it ended its Times Select subscription pay wall back in September. ...

LA Blogger Heads to MSM

I read today that an editor for the blog LAist, Tony Pierce, accepted a position running about 25 blogs over at the LA Times. I thought it was interesting to see such a huge paper, with such a mixed record in the online world, making a blogger an important part of the paper's team. ...

Yahoo! Ad Partnership with Local Newspapers — A Year Later

On Monday Duncan Riley reported on TechCrunch that 17 more newspapers have joined in on Yahoo!'s partnership with local news sites; these papers include 16 regional papers owned by The New Times Company but not the NYT itself. 

A main part of this partnership is that local newspapers can buy job listings from Yahoo!'s HotJobs site. ...

Newspaper Websites Getting More Visitors for Longer Periods of Time

CNET  had an interesting blurb a couple of days ago about newspaper websites–more people are using them!

"The number of people visiting U.S. newspaper Web sites rose 3.7 percent year over year during the third quarter, even as their print editions reported lower advertising sales.

More than 59 million people,...

IHT Shares Thoughts on Visitor Comments

Michael Cosentino over at the International Herald Tribune's Developer Blog shares some of his thoughts about comment sections on news sites — a topic that we cover in our newspaper study.  In his post titled "How are visitors using comments?" he shares some of the issues that he and his team have mulled over as they upgrade the comment section on their site. ...