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MediaGuardian: Look how many newspapers are still sold every day in the UK…

Thursday, 30 December 2010, 18:49

Roy Greenslade "How many people in Britain buy a newspaper every day? … I set about coming up with a definitive figure and it transpires that my guesstimate wasn't too far off the mark. It is, in fact, 12,681,472."

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Poynter Online: How News Organizations Hope to Benefit from Facebook’s New Features

Thursday, 29 April 2010, 06:11

"We've seen an over 250 percent increase in referrals from Facebook to ABC News since the launch of the Social toolkit on ABCNews.com," [Jonathan Dube, vice president in charge of ABCNews.com] said.

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Observer: Are papers in freefall? Not if they innovate

Sunday, 19 October 2008, 11:45

Peter Preston: "Sometimes, amid encircling gloom, it's wise to set benchmarks longer than a week last Friday. Always, there are choices to be made – or not made. And usually (perhaps, maybe) innovation is its own reward. A Times drop of under 20,000 in five years isn't systemic collapse. A Guardian surge online that brings in more than 23 million unique users a month on top of a million-plus print readers isn't carnage."

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 Monday, 14 January 2008, 16:32 0

"The most recent–and seemingly unlikely–election coverage team is CBS News and Digg, … Under the partnership, political stories from Digg will appear in a box on the politics section of CBSNews.com."

 Monday, 26 November 2007, 07:56 0

"ABC News and Facebook have formally established a partnership — the site’s first with a news organization — that allows Facebook members to electronically follow ABC reporters, view reports and video and participate in polls and debates…"

 Monday, 12 November 2007, 07:51 0

"I think we are the only newspaper that overtly markets itself as paper, online and mobile. It’s the combination of those three things which is the really important result. We do not look in isolation around newspaper circulation; that’s just one element.

 Monday, 22 October 2007, 14:56 0

"The first audit of an Irish newspaper’s online readers in expected early next year, while some online newspaper and magazine sites in Britain are reporting daily numbers for their users."

 Wednesday, 3 October 2007, 21:28 0

"After two decades of cutbacks in international bureaus, ABC News is bucking the trend by creating one-person operations that will dramatically boost its coverage in Africa, India and elsewhere."

 Friday, 17 August 2007, 07:09 0

Ian Reeves explains the ABC figures: "the total circulation figure of the [top] 100 [actively purchased magazines] is just 24 million – that’s a full 20 per cent down."

 Monday, 13 August 2007, 18:43 0

"The Audit Bureau of Circulations has launched an investigation into how magazine circulation data became publicly available a week before it was due for official release."

 Sunday, 12 August 2007, 23:59 0

"Metro is set to launch in Dundee and Perth in the next few weeks as part of a major expansion around the UK. … [T]otal daily distribution of the free paper is set to rise from 1.1 million to 1.35m copies as every UK edition is beefed up."

 Sunday, 12 August 2007, 10:20 0

‘It’s all about digital now,’ says one [magazine company executive]. ‘This ABC period marks a sea change in how magazine companies attend to digital.’

 Wednesday, 18 July 2007, 12:20 0

The US newspaper ABC will for the first time include online audience estimates this autumn.

 Wednesday, 11 July 2007, 16:23 0

"I think the time has come for newspapers to abandon the ABC. … [unlike print metrics, web metrics] changes when the content producers want it to, is inconsistent from one metrics supplier to another, and adapts as consumer habits change."

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