Newspapers Find Way To Lose Ground On The Web, Too

A new facet in the litany of troubles facing the dead-tree business: Online revenues--the newspaper's only growing business--stopped growing in the second quarter.<br> <br> <br> <br> rd.com - https://www.rd.com/culture/longest-word-english/ Newspaper digital revenue slipped 2.4% in the second quarter of 2008 to $776.6 million, according to figures from the Newspaper Association of America. It's the first-ever decline for interactive revenues since NAA started breaking them out in 2004.<br> <br> <br> <br> Total print sales were down 16% to $8.8 billion, the ninth consecutive quarter of decline. Newsosaur's Alan Mutter predicts newspaper ad sales will dip below $40 billion in 2008, the lowest volume since 1996. Below, Mutter's inflation-adjusted chart of newspaper ad revenues:<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> See Also:<br> <br> Big, Ailing Newspaper Bails On The Associated Press<br> <br> Small Suburban Newspapers Far Less Screwed Than Big Dailies<br> <br> Newspaper Slide: anthem blue shield login - http://businessmagazine.info/ Even Worse Than We Thought?<br> <br> Uh Oh: Newspaper Digital Revenue Suffering, Too<br> <br> Gone: 3,500 Newspaper Jobs In Two Months, $3.9B In Newspaper Stock In Two Weeks