US newspapers hit back as Huff Po and co run out of steam

Statistics show print resilience is strong in press and book publishing, as many Americans still prefer to settle down with a book not an e-readerIt’s been a pretty static summer on the circulation and readership front. Quality papers – in print and online – doing well in the referendum aftermath, with the tabloids staging a modest August recovery. But there’s one fascinating result being celebrated by traditional US news hawks. For the first time in modern digital history (as recorded by comScore over July), the New York Times and the Washington Post both beat starry startups BuzzFeed and the Huffington Post. The Times and Post were up 41% and 54% year-on-year – while the opposition dropped back.As Ken Doctor at the Nieman Journalism Lab notes, it’s not just a question of readers wanting their news from sturdier, familiar sources in the eye of a presidential election storm. There’s the question of if and when shooting stars begin to wane. “Has the Huffington Post, which shed 12m unique visitors in just a year – and a time of incredible political ferment – peaked? After all, it was born at another digital time, 2005 … a business/editorial model of aggregation ahead of its time.” Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2016-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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