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Online readership and ads overtake newspapers

(Charles Osgood/Chicago Tribune)

For the first time, online readership and advertising revenue has surpassed that of print newspapers.

Online advertising revenue in the United States is projected to overtake print newspaper ad revenue in 2010, according to the latest report, the State of the News Media, from the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.

The study also found that more people — 46 percent of Americans surveyed — said they get news online at least three times a week, versus 40 percent who said they get their news from newspapers and their companion websites. Get the full story »

Sun-Times halts delivery to more newsstands

From Crain’s Chicago Business | The Chicago Sun-Times will leave stores and restaurants in Michigan’s Harbor Country and on the Wisconsin border without a Sunday edition, as part of its plan to stop delivering its Sunday paper to newsstands outside the six-county Chicago area and two counties in Indiana.

Sun-Times Media eliminating 11 suburban papers

Sun-Times Media plans to discontinue its 11 free weekly suburban Sun newspapers by the end of the year, employees and advertisers have been told.

U.S., Chicago newspaper circulation drops

Paid print circulation figures released Monday by the Audit Bureau of Circulations showed the April-to-September average paid U.S. circulation figures dipped 5 percent weekdays and 4.5 percent Sundays compared to the same period a year ago.

The Chicago Tribune average paid circulation declines for the six-month period was in line with that, slipping year-to-year around 5.2 percent weekdays and almost 4.4 percent Sundays. The Chicago Sun-Times’s average paid circulation fell 9 percent on weekdays and 5.5 percent on Sundays.