US newspaper web traffic surged in October, according to Nielsen data. "NYTimes.com had more than 17.5 million unique monthly visitors, up from 14.6 million in September."

Somehow missed this: the top US newspaper sites, based on Nielson/Netratings data. NY Times is top with a unique audience of 12,960,000 users and 455,527,000 pvs.in February.