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Sunday, January 20, 2008
The gray lady lets her hair down.
The New York Times displayed a flash of informality Sunday. Their obituary for Suzanne Pleshette ended by talking (naturally) about the legendary ending of Newhart ... and referenced the headline of this short 1999 story from The Onion. Labels: humor, newspapers posted by Paul Murray at 11:56 PM | permanent link |  Thursday, January 17, 2008
A tale of two papers.
The two major newspapers in Detroit, the Detroit News and Detroit Free Press, both redesigned their websites in 2007. To me, there was no question that the News site was much more attractive, definitely easier to read and arguably easier to use. Nielsen Online has just released its newspaper website traffic measurements for December, and they are (unique audience and year-over-year change)... 27. The Detroit News -- 1,256,000 -- 21.4% 29. Detroit Free Press -- 1,168,000 -- (-22.9%) Maybe I'm not the only one who feels that way about the websites. For comparison, here's the circulation of their physical printed papers, as of 3/31/07, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulation (via BurrellesLuce): 20. Detroit Free Press: 329,989 Daily / 640,356 Sunday 47. The Detroit News: 202,029 Daily / 0 Sunday Both newspapers are a mere shadow of their former selves, in more ways than one. While newspaper readership is declining in general, both Detroit papers hemorrhaged readers during a long strike that began in 1995. Gannett took over the News after a 1985 merger, and the quality went downhill. Having ruined the News, Gannett unloaded it to MediaNews Group in 2005 when they bought the Free Press from Knight-Ridder. So we have the distinction of having Gannett spoil both of our once-great newspapers. Wikipedia: Detroit News, Detroit Free Press Labels: news, newspapers, websites posted by Paul Murray at 12:28 PM | permanent link |
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