What, the Courier-Journal fails to make Top 30 Newspaper Web sites?
June 18, 2007The list of the Top 30 Newspaper web sites for May just came out, and once again the Courier-Journal here in Louisville failed to make the list. Not a surprise, we’re hardly a big media market of any kind here.
I was surprised to see that SFGate, with 3.7 million visitors in May, is still trouncing the Mercury News Web site with just 1.65 million. That’s not even close, that’s a 2-to-1 whuppin’ that the Mercury News is getting at the hands of the San Francisco Chronicle. I thought it would be closer by now, what with all the money they poured into marketing the Merc as a major regional player rather than just the paper of record for the San Jose / south bay area.
On a different note, why are so many of the top 30 sites from coastal papers–New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, Houston, Miami. There were a few from the interior, like of course Chicago, but no Minneapolis or Detroit or Pittsburgh papers made the list. What’s up with that? Do those of us living in the interior of the country just not consume as much Web coverage from our local papers?