Regional news publishers have continued to see their online audiences grow, the latest ABC website figures show.
Trinity Mirror, Johnston Press and Newsquest are all up year-on-year across their digital networks for the number of average daily unique browsers. Newsquest saw the biggest group-wide jump over the six months to the end of June, with a 24 per cent rise year-on-year to 1.575m daily uniques, 23 per cent up on the last half of 2015.
Johnston Press was up by 22 per cent year-on-year while Trinity Mirror, which boasted the biggest number of daily uniques at 2.471m, was up 19 per cent year-on-year. The Local World Network, owned by Trinity Mirror, was up 13 per cent year-on-year to 1.393m daily uniques. The figures are something of a tonic to the publishers, who all saw overall print sales plummet year-on-year in the first six months of the year.
Newsquest chief Henry Faure Walker said: “We hear a lot of doom and gloom about the future of local news.
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By WNIP
