While the newspaper industry continues to struggle, one bright spot is online visitors to newspaper Web sites increased 10.5 percent in the first quarter of 2009 attracting an average of 73.3 million monthly unique visitors, according to a report from Nielsen Online commissioned by the Newspaper Association of America.
Newspaper Web site visitors generated an average of more than 3.5 billion page views per month throughout the quarter, an increase of 12.8 percent over the same period a year ago (3.1 billion page views). The numbers are the highest for any quarter since the NAA began tracking data in 2004.
Last month the Hearst Corporation made the move to end the print edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, going to an online-only publication. Since then
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