Nearly half of the top 30 U.S. newspapers experienced declines in the time users spent on the Web sites in the last year.
That has to be harrowing.
NYTimes.com, WSJ.com and USAToday.com experienced some growth, but some of the larger papers in the United States (in Atlanta, Boston, New York, San Francisco, among them) aren't getting a time-spent boost online.
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