Newspaper site traffic data

From Editor & Publisher online, citing Nielsen Online:

EXCLUSIVE: Our Monthly Top 30 Most Popular Newspaper Sites — ‘Newsday’ Pulls Ahead of WSJ.com

By the numbers:

Brand or Channel — Unique Audience (000) — Year-over-year % Change

NYTimes.com — 17,177 — 29.9%
USATODAY.com — 9,939 — 9.1%
washingtonpost.com — 8,478 — 11.2%
Newsday — 6,450 — 182.8%
Wall Street Journal Online — 5,409 — 109.0%

LA Times — 4,607 — (-6.4%)
Boston.com — 4,364 — 15.0%
Chicago Tribune — 3,891 — 14.0%
Daily News Online Edition — 2,956 — 23.2%
New York Post — 2,851 — (-5.7%)

SFGate.com/San Francisco Chronicle — 2,785 — (-30.9%)
Philly.com — 2,300 — 33.4%
International Herald Tribune — 2,250 — 14.9%
Village Voice Media — 2,224 — 70.6%
Chicago Sun-Times — 2,186 — 8.3%

Atlanta Journal-Constitution — 1,974 — 26.2%
The Houston Chronicle — 1,946 — (-18.6%)
The Seattle Times — 1,840 — (-19.3%)
DallasNews.com – The Dallas Morning News — 1,828 — 21.9%
Seattle Post-Intelligencer — 1,785 — (-0.1%)

The Politico — 1,672 — N/A
Orlando Sentinel — 1,522 — 78.6%
NJ.com — 1,455 — 40.1%
Azcentral.com — 1,435 — (-36.6%)
Baltimore Sun — 1,332 — 26.2%

MercuryNews.com — 1,315 — (-15.1%)
The Detroit News — 1,256 — 21.4%
The San Diego Union-Tribune — 1,180 — 10.4%
Detroit Free Press — 1,168 — (-22.9%)
The Washington Times — 1,161 — (-24.9%)

Weigh in: Does Newsday pulling ahead of WSJ surprise you?

School of Comm dean finalist for Syrcause spot

Here’s a breaking news story I reported Tuesday night, thanks to an item from Romanesko:

Communication dean finalist for spot at Syracuse University (The Miami Hurricane)

This was the first local reporting of the story, which broke in Syracuse. It has more background and the first public comment from Grogg.

Opening Knight

The University of Miami‘s Knight Center for International Media named its two chairs this morning:

Joe Treaster (left) formerly of The New York Times, and Rich Beckman formerly (right),of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Their appointment comes almost one year after the Knight Foundation announced a $10 million grant to the school.

Here is the UM press release, here is a letter from the NYT’s business editor and below is a video of the press conference:

We’re on our first deadline of the semester, so I’ll add more to this post after we finish. Stay tuned.

UPDATE, Jan. 17 @ 9:58 P.M.: Both of these guys look like great additions to the School of Comm. Their words at press conference were very encouraging.

Check out two of Beckman’s projects from when he was head of visual communications at UNC:

The Ancient Way (about elders in Galicia, Spain)

Chiloé Stories (about language of native people on Chiloe Island, Chile)

Quick tip: Use RSS

RSS feeds are a great way to get news and updates. I use Google Reader, which I find very easy and clean with plenty of good features. I also check it on my smartphone from time to time. Whatever reader you choose to use, you will find it makes your online life so much easier–no more millions of tabs open with endless news and blog posts to read.

RSS is short for Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary

Here are some good references from Megan Taylor’s blog, SOJo: Student of Online Journalism, for those who are not familiar with RSS. The first post is from today, the others I found under “Most Popular Posts.”

Weigh in: Do you use RSS feeds? If so, what reader do you use?