CityVoter Behind Hearst’s New BayList

It a major metro newspaper debut, CityVoter is behind the just-launched BayList on Hearst’s SF Chronicle site (SFGate):

It will be interesting to see whether the site gains traction (it should). This is more evidence of newspapers pushing deeper into the social media space. And CityVoter’s approach is a way to do that without requiring a big commitment on the part of users or asking them to join another social network.

Here the top 30 US newspaper sites (per Nielsen/E&P):

1. NYTimes.com — 21,340 — 67%
2. USATODAY.com — 10,785 — 13%
3. washingtonpost.com — 9,204 — 7%
4. LA Times — 7,223 — 24%
5. Wall Street Journal Online — 6,003 — 38%
6. Boston.com — 4,962 — 23%
7. Chicago Tribune — 4,415 — 48%
8. New York’s Daily News Online Edition — 4,331 — 91%
9. New York Post — 3,966 — 1%
10. The Politico — 3,530 — 262%
11. The Houston Chronicle — 3,414 — 0%
12. Newsday — 3,390 — 90%
13. SFGate.com/San Francisco Chronicle — 3,340 — (-10%)
14. DallasNews.com – The Dallas Morning News — 3,230 — 156%
15. Atlanta Journal-Constitution — 3,218 — 74%
16. International Herald Tribune — 3,130 — 83%
17. Chicago Sun-Times — 2,643 — 42%
18. Star Tribune, Minneapolis — 2,337 — 136%
19. Sun-Sentinel — 2,214 — 85%
20. The Seattle Times — 1,915 — 6%
21. The Detroit News — 1,775 — 91%
22. Baltimore Sun — 1,768 — 1%
23. Village Voice Media — 1,722 — 43%
24. Boston Herald — 1,700 — 29%
25. Detroit Free Press — 1,674 — 46%
26. tampabay.com — 1,615 — 18%
27. Azcentral.com — 1,579 — (-7%)
28. Seattle Post-Intelligencer — 1,562 — (-12%)
29. The Indianapolis Star — 1,536 — 88%
30. Philly.com — 1,494 — 1%

The traffic (thousands) comparison is YoY.

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