Newspapers’ Readers Digging Into Blogs

Published January 19, 2007 5:00am ET



Take Just an Online Minute and check out the latest Nielsen figures and the data indicating a surge in the percentage of newspaper readers who are also reading the blogs they find on their favorite daily’s web site. As this trend accelerates in the near-future, it will have numerous consequences, among them driving more advertising to the web sites, encouraging greater integration of the traditional and online newsrooms and probably most important further reshaping the way most journalists approach their profession. Comments?