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Huffington Post Has More Traffic Than The New York Times

We spotted this today:

"The Huffington Post has zipped past the New York Times in monthly uniques, according to data from comScore.

It's an impressive feat. As AOL employee Brad Garlinghouse put it on Twitter, "Six years to disrupt 100 years."
Next up for HuffPo: Taking on the big news sites out there like Yahoo News and CNN, which attract 70-80 million uniques per month, according to comScore."

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-huffpo-nyt-unique-visitors-2011-6?op=1#ixzz1OteWhU00

We have written about Digital Journalism Statistics and the impact of the NYTimes Paywall before.

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