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Video: Newser Has Dramatic Traffic Drop, Report

Earlier this year, I interviewed Newser co-founder Michael Wolff. In his report, Wolff explains some of the reasons for the decline in his site's traffic, citing changing "distribution deals."
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Traffic to Newser, the news aggregator, has dramatically dropped from a peak of 1.6 million uniques to 565,000, reports Zach Steward in the Nieman Journalism Lab, siting Quantcast numbers.

Earlier this year, I interviewed Newser co-founder Michael Wolff.  In his report, Wolff explains some of the reasons for the decline, citing changing "distribution deals."

In June, company raised $2.5 million in funding.  Here is that report on paidContent.

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