A Web-Only Success Story...Sort Of

What happens when a newspaper goes online-only? The Christian Science Monitor, which stopped its daily print edition March 25, 2009, says lots of good things.

Traffic is up by more than 60%, revenue for the daily e-mail newsletter is up, and they are on budget, editor John Yemma told Joe Strupp at Media Matters.

But, there’s always a but.

First: The CSM is not truly a Web-only operation: the organization is putting out a weekly print edition (which has seen 79% circulation growth since its launch).

Second:

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