Top 10 below and the full list on the E&P site. Not surprising to see nytimes.com leading the pack with its outstanding year-on-year growth.

Brand or Channel — Unique Audience (000) — Year-over-year % Change

NYTimes.com — 20,461 — 45.1%
USATODAY.com — 12,314 — 19.4%
washingtonpost.com — 9,902 — 14.6%
Wall Street Journal Online — 6,962 — 81.4%
LA Times — 5,715 — 4.7%
Boston.com — 5,194 — 23.7%
SFGate.com/San Francisco Chronicle — 4,255 — (-3.9%)
New York Post — 4,027 — (-3.5%)
Newsday — 3,764 — 59.2%
Chicago Tribune — 3,185 — (-15.7%)

More: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/departments/online/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003711746

Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos yesterday, Murdoch said his plans for the newly-acquired publication still involved expanding the audience for general news.

But the chairman and chief executive of News Corporation, which concluded its takeover of Wall Street Journal owner Dow Jones last month, indicated that WSJ.com users would probably have to pay more for content that remained behind the subscription wall.

“We’re sort of dividing it up. Those things you can get more or less as a commodity on different sites about finance, that will certainly be free at the Wall Street Journal,” he added.

More: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jan/25/digitalmedia.rupertmurdoch?gusrc=rss&feed=media

What’s in it for Google? Well, for one thing, it’s cheap. Sell off the New England properties and the real cost is $3 billion. That’s not much money to buy one of the premier brands of the information age. It also comes with some excellent real estate, which further reduces the risk. And happily enough, it will probably get cheaper in the coming months. So the price is definitely right.

Second, Google is embarking on an ambitious mobile platform. It is buying wireless spectrum and will soon introduce Google Mobile. In so doing, it is entering into an arena where the established players have hired (almost) every lobbyist and (almost) every law firm with expertise in telecommunications in Washington, DC and in virtually every state capital. Owning the New York Times would level that playing field in one fell swoop.

This would also fit in with John Battelle’s idea that Google is making a play for the second click.

And while it’s not in the same league as Google, let’s not forget that the NYT Company acquired About.com in March 2005, which (according to their own info) is ‘a top 10 content site‘.

And speaking of content, Google would also be buying the highly respected New York Times Syndicate and News Service, giving it tremendous reach outside of the US.

More: http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2008/01/might_google_buy_the_new_york.html

The Daily Mail had the highest proportion of international visitors, with 69 percent of its 7.6 million visitors originating from outside the U.K.  The BBC attracted 59 percent of its audience internationally, while the Telegraph (57 percent) and the Guardian Media Group (56 percent) also drew more than half their respective audiences from outside the U.K. Only two of the ten sites studied, British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) and ITV Sites, had less than a quarter of their traffic originate internationally.

More: http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=2011

The Guardian is planning to launch adverts in its podcasts later this year. Speaking at a Radio Academyevent on podcasting, Matt Wells, head of audio for Guardian Unlimited, said the media group was developing software to allow the sale of ’spot ads’ in Guardian podcasts.

Some Guardian podcast stats from the report:

Last month the site recorded 1.5 million downloads across all of its podcasts, Wells said, with 15-20,000 downloads of the Media Talk podcast over a week and 80-100,000 weekly downloads of its Football Weekly show.

More: http://www.journalism.co.uk/2/articles/530933.php