LA Times Ranked 4th Most Popular Newspaper Website

Editor & Publisher has published a list of the top 30 newspaper web sites in May:

Below is the latest custom list of top 30 newspaper Web sites based on U.S. panels and ranked by unique audience for May. The percent change compares May 2009 to May 2008 data.

Site — May ’09 Uniques — YoY % change

NYTimes.com — 16,837,000 — (-21%)
USATODAY.com — 10,337,000 — (-4%)
washingtonpost.com — 10,069,000 — 9%
LA Times — 8,264,000 — 14%
Wall Street Journal Online — 7,216,000 — 20%

N.Y. Daily News Online Edition — 6,435,000 — 49%
Chicago Tribune — 4,869,000 — 10%
New York Post — 4,847,000 — 22%
Boston.com — 4,397,000 — (-11%)
Newsday — 3,871,000 — 14%

SFGate.com/San Francisco Chronicle — 3,750,000 — 12%
Politico — 3,141,000 — (-11%)
NJ.com — 2,924,000 — 133%
Chicago Sun-Times — 2,802,000 — 6%
Atlanta Journal-Constitution — 2,572,000 — (-20%)

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Baltimore Sun — 2,262,000 — 28%
DallasNews.com – The Dallas Morning News — 2,255,000 — (-30%)
The Houston Chronicle — 2,212,000 — (-35%)
Philly.com — 2,113,000 — 41%
KansasCity.com — 2,110,000 — 78%

The Washington Times — 1,969,000 — 65%
Star Tribune — 1,953,000 — (-16%)
MercuryNews.com — 1,866,000 — 27%
tampabay.com — 1,727,000 — 7%
The Seattle Times — 1,691,000 — (-12%)

Orlando Sentinel — 1,674,000 — 17%
MiamiHerald.com — 1,623,000 — 59%
Seattle Post-Intelligencer — 1,496,000 — (-4%)
Detroit Free Press — 1,442,000 — (-14%)
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette — 1,442,000 — 71%

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