According to Nielsen data, US newspapers online audience has grown by 6% last year, with 38% of online users visiting a paper’s site regularly. This evolution is less significant than the corresponding shift in advertising that recorded a 21% growth for online papers vs. a loss of 6% in their print operations.
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