Pew Project: Readers Still Flock to Staggering Old-Media Outlets for Online News

Journalism’s big print players still tend to dominate in the online space, according to the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism’s State of the News Media report released yesterday.

Among 4,600 primary news sites surveyed, the top 7% get 80% of traffic, according to the report. Sites run by old media companies dominate the top of the charts. Sixty-seven percent of the top 199 sites were from old-media sites — 48% of the top 199 were newspaper Web sites.

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