Anecdotal reports on how major newspapers use data. Can we trust the anecdotes? Seems like hard data would be better. Just for a laugh, I thought I'd give you the most popular NYT stories today when I read this piece. Doesn't bode well for hard news coverage nor relate at all to the kinds of decisions the editorial staff says it is making: 1. Mind: Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits 2. In the Garden: Fending Off the Weeds With Newsprint 3. Op-Ed Contributor: Building on Faith 4. Topical Gel Catches Up With Pills for Relief 5. Gail Collins: The 5 Percent Doctrine 6. Op-Ed Contributor: The Music You Won’t Hear on Rosh Hashana 7. David Brooks: The Gospel of Wealth 8. On Clean Energy, China ... More »

It is good to know that editors are not interpreting readership data and changing their subjects, but rather contemplating different forms of content (video, long and short, photo galleries, etc.) within the digital medium.

this is important information to have about what's happening to one's online newspaper sources. a couple of these at least, such as the nyt and the post imply here that they are not so concerned with the business sense that they will compromise the content they put out , rather they focus on practices about the content. this seems a good use of technology.