{"id":316,"date":"2007-02-26T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-26T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=316"},"modified":"2007-02-26T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-26T18:00:00","slug":"britains-free-online-news-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/02\/britains-free-online-news-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain&#8217;s free online news battle&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">T<\/span>he biggest freesheet battle in the British media is being conducted online. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalism.co.uk\/news\/story3203.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">latest stats<\/a>, the online versions of the <span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">Guardian<\/span> and the <span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">Times<\/span> have both moved up the website ratings.<span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\"> Guardian Unlimited<\/span> got <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">16m <\/span>unique users last month. Over the same period <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Timesonline.co.uk<\/span> claimed <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">11m<\/span> unique users.  Both of these are part of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Paul Dacre<\/span>&#8216;s &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/image.guardian.co.uk\/sys-files\/Media\/documents\/2007\/01\/23\/CudlippDacre.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">subsidariat<\/a>.&#8217; Both would, however, like to make money.<\/p>\n<p>Freesheet rivals the <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">BBC News<\/span> website gets <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/theeditors\/2007\/02\/another_statistical_milestone.html\" target=\"_blank\">one billion<\/a> pageviews per month. I don&#8217;t know what that translates to in unique users, but just to put that metric in some perspective, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Timesonline.co.uk<\/span> got <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">74m<\/span> pageviews and <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Guardian Unlimited<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">153m<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Thank goodness they don&#8217;t print <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">newspapers<\/span> at the Beeb&#8217;s Wood Lane HQ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest freesheet battle in the British media is being conducted online. According to the latest stats, the online versions of the Guardian and the Times have both moved up the website ratings. Guardian Unlimited got 16m unique users last month. Over the same period Timesonline.co.uk claimed 11m unique users. Both of these are part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,270],"tags":[182,289,47],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-news-biz","tag-guardian","tag-online","tag-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}