New York Times: How The Drudge Report Got Popular and Stayed on Top
Monday, 16 May 2011, 08:15
"With no video, no search optimization, no slide shows, and a design that is right out of mid-’90s manual on HTML, The Drudge Report provides 7 percent of the inbound referrals to the top news sites in the country. … His durability is, first a…
Project for Excellence in Journalism: Navigating News Online
Tuesday, 10 May 2011, 12:11
"the findings suggest that there is not one group of news consumers online but several, each of which behaves differently. These differences call for news organizations to develop separate strategies to serve and make money from each audience.
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Lost Remote: Drudge referrals measure up to Facebook, Twitter
Tuesday, 10 May 2011, 11:09
"The old-fashioned Drudge Report is sending more referrals to top news sites than Facebook or Twitter, explains a new Pew study that examined Nielsen traffic data. "
Publishing 2.0: How Newspapers Abdicated the Front Page’s Influence and How They Can Get it Back By Linking
Tuesday, 23 September 2008, 08:16
"The real question is: WHY is Drudge influential at all, when all he does is link to news? The answer is that Drudge, along with Google, figured out that in the web media era, when all news content is accessible by anyone, anywhere in the world, and no news brands no longer have a monopoly over news distribution, the power of influence lies in the ability to FILTER the vast sea of news."
Publishing 2.0: Drudge Report: News Site That Sends Readers Away With Links Has Highest Engagement
Tuesday, 16 September 2008, 21:29
"There are two main reasons why news sites are reluctant to send readers away by linking to third-party content. First, you shouldn’t send people away or else they won’t come back to your site. Second, a page with links that sends people away has low engagement, which doesn’t serve advertisers well. But if you actually look at the data, both of these assumptions are completely wrong."
Publishing 2.0: Publish2: The Web’s Newswire
Thursday, 4 September 2008, 06:30
"Instead of chasing links from Drudge … as many newspaper sites do, they should focus on BEING a destination for finding links. "
Monday, 5 May 2008, 20:46
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"The Mayor of Windsor and Maidenhead has formally called for an apology from US website the Drudge Report for breaking the news blackout on Prince Harry’s deployment to Afghanistan." Don’t hold your breath, councillor…
Monday, 24 March 2008, 18:19
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"In February, for the first time ever … the Huffington Post … apparently surpassed the … Drudge Report, according to recent traffic data reports from both comScore and Nielsen Online."
Monday, 3 March 2008, 13:27
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"Matt Drudge … remains an elusive, mysterious figure but the internet pioneer is arguably the single most powerful journalist – though his detractors even deny that is his occupation – in the world."
Saturday, 1 March 2008, 19:34
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Simon Bucks: "Where Drudge got the [Harry in Afghanistan] story from is a mystery – some suspect an element of the British media which wanted to break the story for its own ends."
Saturday, 1 March 2008, 19:15
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"Journalists in America routinely keep quiet about the travel plans of government officials to Iraq and other hostile regions. …"
Thursday, 17 January 2008, 18:38
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"On the night of January 17, 1998, Matt Drudge revealed that Newsweek editors had spiked a story about Bill Clinton and an intern named Monica Lewinsky."
Friday, 4 January 2008, 22:01
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"Matt Drudge’s eponymous website should be booming. So why is site traffic dragging? comScore says the site attracted 1.5 million unique visitors last November, down 10% y/y. "
Wednesday, 2 January 2008, 17:10
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"The fact that Portfolio has taken to advertising its articles on Drudge seems very interesting to us."
