Nielsen/NetRatings [NTRT] found that while the unique audience to online newspapers grew 9%, December '05 to December '06, the number of visitors to blog pages at the top newspapers skyrocketed and accounted for 13 percent of the parent sites' total traffic.
Here are the most popular online newspaper blogs and links to their pages. Their estimated December audiences are included.
USATODAY.com blogs, 1.239 million The New York Times' blogs, 1.173 million SFGate blogs, 515,000 Washingtonpost.com blogs, 433,000 Boston.com blogs, 388,000
NetRatings said its sample size was insufficient to project an audience for the balance of the most popular online newspapers' blog pages.
New York Daily News blogs Los Angeles Times blogs New York Post blogs Wall Street Journal blogs Chicago Tribune
Neither the Wall Street Journal's nor the Chicago Tribune's blog directories could be reached without registration. The Journal blogs are accessible here, and at least one of the Tribune's is here.
