Comments on: Newspapers and Google News: An Analysis

By: links for 2008-05-06 « David Black

links for 2008-05-06 « David Black — Tue, 06 May 2008 02:36:31 +0000

[...] Newspapers and Google News: An Analysis – The Bivings Report “I quickly compared the twenty five newspapers that appeared most often in Google News with a list of the twenty five largest newspapers in terms of print circulation. A couple of quick things jumped out at me…” (tags: internet newspapers newspapersites audience trends search seo news aggregators google googlenews) [...]

By: The Modern Journalist » Blog Archive » RSS Readers. That’s Where It’s At.

Sat, 03 May 2008 19:38:57 +0000

[...] This post at the Bivings report backs up my thinking. At the New Communications Forum conference last week, Chris O’Brien from the San Jose Mercury News mentioned during a presentation that 2/3rds of the traffic to the paper’s website comes from news aggregators (like Google News) and search engines. [...]

By: Dave Brooks

Dave Brooks — Sat, 03 May 2008 19:23:34 +0000

Akron Beacon Journal???? That’s the weird outlier in this list. At least the Herald is in geeky Boston.

By: Brad King

Brad King — Sat, 03 May 2008 14:35:47 +0000

What is more concerning for traditional news organizations is how much of their content was read in RSS Readers, which display no banners or other forms of advertising.

The metrics that news organizations use to track their success — and what they use to sell ads — is skewed.

When I worked in the media — and I was on the digital side since 1999, I repeatedly tried to convince folks that banners and page views were such a bad way to think about business because the world is quickly become a syndicated reality.