30 most popular newspaper sites for October
David Johnson November 14th, 2007
Editor and Publisher has the latest newspaper site numbers from Nielsen (um, ’cause Nielsen owns E&P). NYTimes.com had a big surge and topped the list with more than 17.5 million unique monthly visitors, up from 14.6 million in September. Breaking into the top 30 for the first time is the recently-launched D.C. newspaper Politico. Also, the San Diego Union-Trib had high numbers, most likely due to great wildfire coverage. Interesting to note how much time people are spending on newspaper sites. The top dogs are now holding users for about half an hour.
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1. Cory | November 14th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
Either Politico is making great strides in its short history or it got seriously Drudged during the month of October. Can’t remember if a Politico story popped last month, but either way the numbers are rather surprising. And with a crazy election season on the way, they’ll only capitalize.
2. discreet_chaos | November 15th, 2007 at 1:36 am
Politico gets linked from all around the political blogosphere. I don’t read Drudge, but I’ve been taken there by a lot of different sources and they’re also regularly cited by mainstream media. With the upcoming election, obviously their timing was perfect and they’ve been very successful at getting linked.
(Plus, they co-sponsored one of the first debates. I’m pretty sure that it wasn’t in October, but it probably gave them a good foundation upon which to build)
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