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Editor and Publisher today has a report (worth reading in full) on Nielsen data suggesting that some high-profile newspapers and broadcasting news brands are far outstripping Google news in terms of unique traffic. The New York Times is the leading newspaper by traffic, and MSNBC and CNN Digital Network are in the top five. The leading online news source is Yahoo! News, and AOL News is number 4. Google News comes in at number 8.

The report shows the top 30 - to my surprise, Huffington Post is there, but Drudge is nowhere to be seen…

media Google, media, newspapers, ratings

Shaping the future of the newspaper is an excellent source of news and think-pieces on how new platforms are affecting well… the future of newspapers.

Anyway, today there’s a piece by Erina Lin on how Google search, and aggregators like Yahoo! News and Google News, have benefited newspapers. The story smells a little of a Google press release, but it uses Hitwise data to make some interesting points, and we can use it to lead into a larger discussion.

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Uncategorized aggregation, Google, Matthew Hindman, newspapers, search