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Newspaper companies are feeling the shift hard, as people go from reading print newspapers to getting their news and classified ads on the Internet.

MediaShift . NewspaperShift::Newspaper Sites Hot to Blog, Cool to Podcasts | PBS

MediaShift by Mark Glaser has quickly become one of my favorite blogs. In this particular post, here are his main points in the cited article:

- Blogging is all the rage.

Out of the Top 100 newspaper sites, 80 of them have blogs. Of those 80
sites with blogs, 67 sites (or 83%) let readers comment on the blogs.



- Podcasting is still a province of larger papers.

Unlike blogs, podcasts are employed by a minority of Top 100 newspaper sites — 31 of them.



- Video offerings are widespread.

61 newspaper sites of the Top 100 offer video on their sites, which is a pretty strong number.



- Newspaper sites offer RSS — but not with full text or ads.

Out of the Top 100, 76 sites have RSS feeds and almost all of them offer feeds for particular sections of the site.



- Forced registration is losing steam.

Only 23 of the Top 100 newspaper sites require people to register in order to read articles.



- Editors are not hip to reader comments on stories or bookmarking.

Only 19 sites allow readers to comment below each article, and only 7
sites offer either internal or external bookmarking features.

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