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Paper Sites’ Unique Hits Are Up
The number of unique visitors to newspaper Web sites hit another record high in Q3, up 15.7% to 68.3 million compared to the same period a year ago. The Newspaper Association of America reported the custom data provided by Nielsen Online (owned by the same parent company as E&P).
Virginia’s E-Press for Oct. 22
Possible consolidation of conferences; 2008 News Contest info now online; directory listings still needed; and more.
News Contest Info is Online
Instructions and calls for entry in the 2008 VPA News, Editorial & Photo Contest are now available at the contest link on the VPA Web site.
Obama Still Leads in Endorsements
Sunday, John McCain picked up the endorsement of the Daily Press in Newport News, which called him 'the better choice to lead us.'
The Birth of Newsplex
The converged newsroom of the future opened its doors exactly six years ago in South Carolina's capital, but the original plans go back to the previous decade and another state's capital, according to an original study participant.
Tribune Gives Notice to Drop AP
E&P: Tribune Company has given a two-year notice to the Associated Press that its daily newspapers plan to drop the news service, becoming the first major newspaper chain to do so since the recent controversy over new rates began.
MG Advertising Plunges 23%
Richmond-based Media General Inc. said Thursday that advertising sales in its publishing unit plunged 23 percent in September as the worsening economy further depresses an ad market already suffering from a migration of readers to the Internet.
Virginia’s E-Press for October 15
Directory listings still needed; newspaper endorsements; special section for ports in Virginia; and more.
FL-S Has Customized Classifieds
SCS introduced Community Classified Services (CCS), early this year as the first in a collection of Web-enabled self-service systems, Community Advertising Services (CAS). The Free Lance-Star uses CAS/CCS for online order entry in its Fredericksburg/Spotsylvania and Stafford Star Weeklies, as well as in the flagship daily.
Growth of Online Ads Slows
But now, after 17 quarters of ballooning growth, online revenue at newspaper sites is falling. In the second quarter, it was down 2.4 percent compared with last year, to $777 million, according to the Newspaper Association of America.
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