{"id":824,"date":"2008-02-21T13:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T19:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=824"},"modified":"2008-02-21T13:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-21T19:31:00","slug":"transnational-news-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/02\/transnational-news-traffic\/","title":{"rendered":"Transnational news traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">S<\/span>o is online helping British journalism colonise the US? <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/fishbowlny\/newspapers\/us_scandals_drive_uk_newspaper_traffic_78007.asp?c=rss\">FishbowlNY<\/a>\u2019s take on a <a style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2008\/feb\/21\/abcs.digitalmedia\">Guardian<\/a> piece certainly makes it look that way:<br \/><span id=\"fullpost\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p># The <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Daily Mail<\/span> saw online traffic increase 31% for Mail Online compared to 01\/07.<br \/># <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">The Guardian<\/span>\u2019s traffic increased by 25.5%.<br \/># Rupert Murdoch\u2019s highbrow\/lowbrow <span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">Times<\/span> of London and <span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">The Sun<\/span> saw traffic up 38% and 40% respectively.<br \/># A staggering 65% jump in web traffic for <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">The Telegraph<\/span>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, apart from a shared language and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Matt Drudge<\/span>, what might be driving the transnational traffic uptick?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In celebrity news, big established markets &#8211; remember Splash emerged in L.A. to service Britain\u2019s tabloids<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>In election coverage, none of the sensitivities or responsibilities of U.S. outlets<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It\u2019s probably that simple.<\/p>\n<p>And a reminder too that people are not drawn to journalism for information.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So is online helping British journalism colonise the US? FishbowlNY\u2019s take on a Guardian piece certainly makes it look that way: # The Daily Mail saw online traffic increase 31% for Mail Online compared to 01\/07.# The Guardian\u2019s traffic increased by 25.5%.# Rupert Murdoch\u2019s highbrow\/lowbrow Times of London and The Sun saw traffic up 38% [&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],"tags":[182,289,412,143,47],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-guardian","tag-online","tag-telegraph","tag-sun","tag-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","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=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}