OnLine vs. Traditional Newspapers

Media Week ran a recent survey of online newspapers , results-
Online-only newspaper readership is still very low in the United States. According to Scarborough Research, the number of adults who have read newspapers online-only during the week is 4 percent.

Below is the latest list of top newspaper Web sites. The percent change compares March 2009 to March 2008.


NYTimes.com -- 20,118,000 -- 7%
USATODAY.com -- 9,961,000 -- (-7%)
washingtonpost.com -- 9,367,000 -- 5%
Wall Street Journal Online -- 9,192,000 -- 34%
LA Times -- 8,643,000 -- 51%
Boston.com -- 5,742,000 -- 37%
Daily News Online Edition -- 5,658,000 -- 71%
Chicago Tribune -- 5,270,000 -- 38%
SFGate.com/San Francisco Chronicle -- 4,227,000 -- 11%
New York Post -- 3,827,000 -- (-18%)
DallasNews.com - The Dallas Morning News -- 3,536,000 -- 30%
The Houston Chronicle -- 3,095,000 -- 15%
Newsday -- 3,065,000 -- (-5%)
Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- 3,041,000 -- 28%
Politico -- 3,033,000 -- 45%
Chicago Sun-Times -- 2,737,000 -- 24%
MiamiHerald.com -- 2,686,000 -- 85%
Star Tribune -- 2,360,000 -- 34%
The Seattle Times -- 2,262,000 -- 70%
International Herald Tribune -- 1,984,000 -- (-23%)
The Coy Paper Company monitors the newsprint market and reports into this Pulp and Paper Blog several times each week.