Visitors to newspaper Web sites on increase

I haven't written in my blog but once this month. I've been busy, but maybe I can make it up in November.

Here's a start: Reuters just reported that the number of people visiting U.S. newspaper Web sites rose 3.7 percent during the third quarter, according to an industry group, even as their print editions reported lower advertising sales.

I know that the number of visitors to the Tracy Press site grows every time I check Google Analytics. I just looked at the number of pageviews for the last 30 days, it's up to 402,761.

Something's happening out there!

Journalists on stamps

Postmaster General John E. Potter today previewed images of the stamps that will immortalize five journalists who risked their lives reporting some of the most important events of the 20th Century.

The five "American Journalists" stamps honor Martha Gellhorn, John Hersey, George Polk, Ruben Salazar and Eric Sevareid.

"These distinguished journalists risked their lives to record the events that shaped the modern world," Potter said during his presentation at the 2007 Associated Press Managing Editors meeting in Washington, D.C. "Their body of work stands as a towering monument to the importance of a free press. It is our hope that Americans will use these stamps to honor these outstanding individuals who have served the cause of journalism so well."

Other journalists who have been commemorated on stamps include Edward R. Murrow, Ernie Pyle, Walter Lippman, Henry Luce, Nellie Bly, Ida M. Tarbell, Ethel L. Payne, Margueritte Higgins and publisher Adolph S. Ochs.