Editor & Publisher Online: “There was some good news for online advertising in the earnings report from The Washington Post Co. issued Friday. Revenue from online ads in the third quarter was up 68%, the company reported.”
“For the first nine months of 2003, online revenues increased 29% to $32.6 million.”
Newspaper Name; Circulation; Change from Year Ago
1. USA Today (M-F*) 2,154,539 0.9%
2. The Wall Street Journal (M-F) 2,091,062** 16.1%
3. The New York Times (M-F) 1,118,565 0.5%
4. Los Angeles Times (M-Sat.*) 955,211 (1.1%)
5. The Washington Post (M-F) 732,872 (1.9%)
6. Daily News, New York (M-F) 729,124 2.1%
7. New York Post (M-F) 652,426 10.6%
8. Chicago Tribune (M-F*) 596,667 No change***
9. Newsday, Melville, N.Y. (M-F) 580,069 0.2%
10. Houston Chronicle (M-Sat.) 553,018 0.2%
* Average calculated by E&P Online
** Figure includes online subscriptions for first time, estimated by Journal at about 686,000
*** Difference less than one-tenth of one percent
Source: Audit Bureau of Circulations FAS-FAX for the six months ended Sept. 30, 2003.
Source: Editor & Publisher Online
Mickey Kaus “I still say Herb Caen’s column was the first blog.”
Herb Caen was a San Francisco columnist who wrote a 1000-word column five or six days a week for 58 years (1938-1996).
Sample phrases —
“At least when right-wingers rant there’s a point.”
“Why not go to war just for oil…”
“Liberals hate America, they hate flag-wavers…”
Correction (washingtonpost.com): “A Sept. 21 item in the Metro in Brief column about a woman fatally shot in Prince George’s County and a child who was wounded incorrectly reported the woman’s age, the child’s sex, the child’s location at the time of the shooting, and the street on which the shooting occurred. A correct account of the incident appears in today’s Metro in Brief column.”
Howard Fineman on Newsweek — The Plame Game: “I’ll stipulate that it is a felony to disclose the name of an undercover CIA operative who has been posted overseas in recent years. That’s what the statute says. But the now infamous outing of Victoria Plame isn’t primarily an issue of law. It’s about a lot of other things….”
It’s beginning to look like Maureen Dowd has a thing for Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Schwarzenegger does understand show business though, which includes, of course, modern politics. As Dowd reports: “Asked about the Britney-Madonna kiss, he takes a P.R. view of it, calling Madonna ‘very smart’: ‘When they decide the one shot from the whole show that’s going to be in The L.A. Times or The New York Times, is it going to be you, or is it going to be someone else? I can relate to that.'”
… is a fascinating resource. Its Features Contents page lists more than 120 intriguing photo essays.
The Digital Journalist has 28 of Life Magazine’s “100 Photographs That Changed the World“.
As reported in The New York Times. “The judge said, ‘Of course, it is ironic that a media company that should be fighting for the First Amendment is trying to undermine it.'”
Ever been curious how the radio station you listen to does in the ratings? Radio & Records posts the ratings for every market on a continuing basis. The charts include the call letters (but not the frequency), the format, the owner and the rating for the past several quarters. Of course, NPR and other non-commercial stations aren’t included.
The rating shown by Radio & Records is — I think — the average number of people that listened to a radio station for at least five minutes during one quarter hour at some point during the day. This is expressed as a percentage of the total possible audience for that market.
For example, KNX-AM in Los Angeles received a 2.1 rating for Spring 2003. That means that — on the average — each day KNX-AM had 218,554 listeners — 2.1% of the 10,407,400 individuals age 12 and older in Los Angeles. Of course, it could have been a different 218,554 each day, or 360,000 one day and 77,108 another day, or 200,000 in the morning and 18,554 the rest of the day, or 200,000 men and 18,554 women. Radio stations pay dearly for all that data and you won’t find it on the Internet.