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Online readers may even expand the reach of newspapers to people who do not read hardcopy news. News Web sites seem to be differentially taking away TV viewers and to a lesser extent attracting visitors who would otherwise not pay attention to current events (Pew, 2000). Online "sticking" time seems to have cut more heavily into the TV audience than into newspaper readership. Of heavy news consumers, online news readers are more interested in hardcopy news than broadcast news (Pew, 1998a). Heavy Web users are ... heavy newspaper and news magazine readers. However, because the heaviest traffic to online news sites is from work during the weekdays, the net effect of online news may be to heighten interest in evening news broadcasts and the weekend Sunday paper.
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A U.S. EyeTrack07 survey by the Poynter Institute found that people who use the Internet to read the news have a greater attention span than print readers. The Florida-based journalism school found online readers read 77% of what they chose to read while broadsheet newspaper readers read an average of 62%, and tabloid readers about 57%. The study ... found that people paid more attention to items written in a question and answer format or as lists, and preferred documentary news photographs to staged or studio pictures. The study involved testing nearly 600 readers in four U.S. markets – readers of the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, The St. Petersburg Times in Florida, the Star Tribune of Minneapolis, and the Philadelphia Daily News.
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Charles Piller (2000), a business staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, argues that major news events recurrently bump up online readership and that the primary beneficiaries are online newspaper sites. He said traditional media with print and broadcast news brand recognition benefit from online spikes more than Internet-only news sites. After each spike, traffic to online news sites falls back but at a higher level, augmenting the upward trend. His examples are the release of the Starr reported on the Monica Lewinsk scandal in 1998 and the 2000 post-election controversy. His analogy was the boost that CNN got from the Gulf War crisis in 1991.
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Of interest: "In the US, where RSS has really taken off, Pew Internet estimated that 5 percent of all US web news was read via RSS feeds." RSS is moving out of early adopter stage.
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