NY Times Web traffic down, Wall Street Journal up

Editor & Publisher released its list of the top 30 most visited U.S. newspaper Web sites for the month of April earlier today, and according to statistics reported by Nielsen Online, the biggest news is that traffic on The Wall Street Journal's Web site is up 160 percent from last April. The newspaper remained in second place with 12.4 million unique visitors in April.

The most visited U.S. newspaper Web site belonged to The New York Times yet again with 16.5 million unique visitors last month, but that marks an 8 percent decrease in traffic from the same time a year ago. Rounding out the top five most visited U.S. newspaper Web sites are USA TODAY, The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times.

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