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Newspaper Web Sites Attract Growing Audience

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Newspaper Web sites are doing well and their audience is growing at close to twice the rate of the overall online audience, according to new data from the Newspaper Association of America.

"The fact that the newspaper Web site audience is growing at almost double the rate of the Internet audience as a whole validates the industry's investment in digital innovation, and the ongoing attraction consumers have to newspapers online," said

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"The educated, highly engaged consumers who visit these sites for news and research on the latest products are also more likely to make purchases online than other Internet users."

The data also shows that newspaper Web site visitors use the Internet more frequently in their daily lives and are more technologically adept than the general online audience. Nearly 73 percent are online everyday compared with 57.8 percent of the overall Internet population.

Additionally approximately 42 percent of users who have visited newspaper Web sites have also viewed video online in the past 30 days, compared to 27.4 percent of the overall Internet audience.

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