News Sites Have Record Month
Osama bin Laden and animal slide shows add up to a popularity boom
May was a banner month for Internet news site traffic, WWD reported. According to their internal Omniture stats, news sites Slate (15.8 million unique visitors), The Atlantic (10 million), The New Yorker (3.7 million), Foreign Policy (2.9 million), and The Week (1.86 million) all reported their highest readership ever in May 2011.
Foreign Policy editor Susan Glasser pointed to the revolutions in the Middle East and the death of Osama bin Laden as the main sources of traffic for the month.
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