Users spent less time on news sites in December

Time spent per user on major newspaper websites trended generally downward from November 2008 to December 2008, according to a list published by Editor & Publisher.

Politico and the Detroit News suffered. About four minutes were nicked off Politico’s average time spent from November to December while Detroit was down about 5 minutes.
The NYTimes.com shed about three minutes from November to December.

Most of the sites saw much smaller losses. A few sites broke the trend and made gains.
The Star Tribune, for example, increased its average time spent per user by twelve minutes to 32:20, good for second place overall behind The New York Times' 33:03.
Third place went to The Houston Chronicle at 19:20.

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