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"Newspaper Footprint"

Traffic Jam: Users at Newspaper Sites Still On Rise

By Jennifer Saba

Published: October 31, 2007 9:25 AM ET

NEW YORK More than 59.6 million people visited a newspaper Web site in July 2007 -- a 9% increase compared to the same period a year ago, according to new data released by the Newspaper Association of America.

Other findings include:

-- 85% of individuals with a household income of $100,000 or more read a newspaper in print or online each week.

-- Newspapers reached more than 82% of people who made online purchases last year.

-- Newspaper readers are highly educated -- 89% of those with a post-graduate degree read a newspaper in print or online while 84% of college graduates did so.

Read the whole article here.

Read the whole report here.

Tuesday in Miami.

In Miami yesterday and met with:

• Center on Nonprofit Effectiveness
• Florida Association of Nonprofits
• Big Brother Big Sister of Greater Miami
• The Miami Herald
• Best Buddies

Other than the bugs in my room...it was a gooooood day.

I am so not a bug person.

I am so not a bug person., originally uploaded by Middlesex Fells.

So. If you know me...you know I'm not a big fan of bugs. I'm not crazy about it. I'm just not thrilled with them. I know they're important to the environment and everything. I'd just prefer they weren't around me.

And I'd really prefer they weren't in my hotel room. And I'd really, really prefer there weren't a whole bunch of them in my hotel room.

So imagine my delight when I woke up this morning in Miami at The Standard (a hip, cool and surprisingly bug infested hotel in Miami Beach) and found a 1/2 dozen or so of these delightful creatures crawling on the walls, ceiling, and in the bathroom. They're about 1.5 inches long and move surprisingly quickly.

Though not as quickly as I did in getting out of that place.

Sigh. More joys of travel.

Sox Win!

07-10-29 Sox Win!, originally uploaded by Middlesex Fells.

Enjoying the celebration at Cambridge Commons after the Sox (and if you have to ask which Sox, you're not a baseball fan or from Boston) won the World Series.

Sahweet!

Wow.

 

And I am happy. 3 down, 1 to go for the sweep.

Newspapers & the Internet. Interesting stuff.

A Cautionary Tale for Old Media

Early on, the Mercury News saw the Web threat coming. It's still struggling to survive

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On Jan. 19, 1990, Robert D. Ingle, then executive editor of the San Jose Mercury News, wrote a remarkably prescient memo to his bosses at the newspaper chain Knight Ridder. Typing at night in his breakfast nook on an Apple II PC, he envisioned that a global information network would emerge, giving rise to all manner of online communities. And he proposed an online service, Mercury Center, aimed, his memo said, at "extending the life and preserving the franchise of the newspaper."

Read the whole thing at BusinessWeek.

Meeting with AHA in Dallas.

I'm in Dallas speaking at a 'Technology and Fundraising Panel' at the American Heart Association.

I'm so important I even have my own name-tag!

Wow. Looking for teens online? Don't look for them at magazine web sites.

Not surprisingly, here's where you'll find teens (from Advertising Age):

"Last month MySpace, without the trust or intimacy of magazine sites, got nearly 7.8 million unique visitors ages 12 to 17, according to ComScore Media Metrix. Seventeen.com drew 216,000. And TeenVogue.com? Just 43,000. People.com, a broader site, got 408,000."

Read the whole thing here.

The state of the newspaper business.

Here's a view on the state of the newspaper industry from CNNMoney.com:

Newspapers down but definitely not out

Print ads are shrinking and layoffs are legion, but there remains much to cheer in the troubled newspaper business, argues Fortune's Richard Siklos.

By Richard Siklos, Fortune editor-at-large

October 22 2007: 1:09 PM EDT

NEW YORK (Fortune) -- Last week could hardly have been grimmer for the newspaper industry. First off, Gannett (Charts, Fortune 500) and McClatchy (Charts) - the two biggest newspapers publishers in the U.S., respectively - reported diminished revenues and profits. Meanwhile, following the lead of Belo, publisher of the Dallas Morning News, Scripps announced it was splitting its growing television and interactive businesses off from the company's newspaper business so that investors could get excited about the company's slumping stock price.

The kicker of the week was when stock in the New York Times Company (Charts) hit its lowest point in a decade after a Morgan Stanley fund manager who had been agitating for changes at the company sold off the firm's entire 7.2% stake. Also last week, the equity research arm of Morgan Stanley laid off its newspaper analyst and dropped coverage of the industry, the Times itself noted wryly in its pages. This was almost certainly a coincidence. Otherwise, it might be construed as one heck of a kiss off. The present question in newspaperland is not whether the industry can reclaim its glory, but rather how quickly the erosion in business conditions that has accelerated in the past year or so can be slowed and even reversed.

Read the whole thing here.