From product to service: The diffusion of dynamic content in online newspapers

Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 825-839

  Tremayne, Mark ^a   Weiss, Amy Schmitz ^a   Alves, Rosental Calmon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MEDIA INDUSTRY; TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 42449133832     PISSN: 10776990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107769900708400411     Document Type: Article

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23. By our definition, one paper in the sample, USA Today, had no local stories.
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28. As two reviewers of this manuscript have pointed out, this approach prevented us from including a large number of dailies with smaller print circulations. We believe, however, that we have adequate variation in paper sizes to identify trends, even if we cannot generalize to the smallest papers.
29. Print circulation does not automatically predict online traffic but the two are strongly correlated. For example, the eight high-circulation papers in our sample average a 913 Web site ranking by Alexa.com while the eight medium papers average a 10,113 ranking and the eight smallest average a 35,000 ranking (based on January 2005 data).
30. Initially we collected data on ten papers at each level, but there were too many New York Papers (so the tabloids the Daily News and the New York Post were later dropped) and errors in our automated data collection system contaminated results for two medium papers and one small. Another small paper was dropped at random for symmetry.
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