Three McClatchy newspaper Web sites in Nielsen Online’s top 30 for July show double-digit readership growth, according to Editor & Publisher, which commissions the rankings.
The Sacramento Bee, at 18th with 2,426,000 unique users, is up 84 percent over July 2008. The Miami Herald, at 24th with 1,829,000 unique users, is up 36 percent. The Kansas City Star, with 1,708,000 unique users, is up 59 percent.
The list’s top five are: The New York Times, 14,277,000, (-27 percent); The Washington Post, 11,565,000, 29 percent; USA Today, 9,761,000, (-6 percent); (New York) Daily News, 9,131,000, 112 percent; Los Angeles Times, 8,938,000, 2 percent.