A recent report by Bivings shows that the top 100 newspapers in the U.S. are now concentrating more on the internet. The report mentioned that 58% of the newspapers are now using internet for the user generated content which 24% more than last year. Around 58% newspapers accepted user generated photos, 18% allowed video and 15% articles. Some of the highlights of the report are as follows:
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Seventy five percent of newspapers now accept article comments in some form, compared to 33 percent in 2007.
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Ten percent of newspapers had social networking tools, such as user profiles and the ability to “friend” other users, built into their sites in 2008.
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Seventy six percent of newspapers offered a Most Popular view of content in some form.
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ntegration with external social bookmarking sites like Digg and del.icio.us has increased dramatically the last few years.
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Every newspaper the study examined featured some sort of online advertising. Indeed, 100% of newspapers provided some form of contextual advertising, such as Google Adwords.
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All of the 100 newspapers in the study provide some type of RSS feed. In 2007 all but three newspapers offered RSS feeds.
