Guardian is fastest growing national press website 24 May 2012 The Guardian clocked up the biggest year-on-year increase for daily website traffic in April, the latest ABC figures reveal. It averaged 3,876,212 daily unique browsers last month – an increase of 61 per cent on April 2011Mail Online remains by far the biggest UK newspaper website by some margin with total monthly traffic up 42 per cent year on year to 90,309,252, this total was 0.5 per cent down on March.UK national newspaper website figures April 2012 (source ABC)Daily figures: Name of site; daily unique browsers; percentage change year on year (month on month)MailOnline : 5,653,577 ; 57.22 ( 4.42 )Metro : 335,390 ; NA ( 2.32 )Standard.co.uk : 110,611 ; NA ( -8.23 )guardian.co.uk ... Continue reading →
Fukushima Daiichi workers stand near the nuclear power plant during a press tour in February 2012. Photograph: Yoshikazu Tsuno/AP Radiation exposure caused by last year's accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was below levels thought to increase the risk of cancer in almost all parts of Japan, according to a World Health Organisation report.But in its preliminary estimate [pdf] released on Wednesday, the WHO said infants in one town near the plant could be at a greater risk of developing thyroid cancer after exposure to radioactive iodine-131.The study is the first by a UN agency since the Fukushima plant was hit by a 14-metre (46ft) tsunami following a magnitude-9.0 earthquake on 11 March last year. The wave knocked out the facility's back-up power ... Continue reading →
Jeremy Paxman at the Leveson inquiry said Ulrika Jonsson was teased by Piers Morgan Piers Morgan described to Jeremy Paxman how to hack into a mobile phone at a lunch held at the headquarters of the Daily Mirror publisher, the BBC presenter has told the Leveson inquiry.Paxman said on Wednesday afternoon that at the same lunch he attended Morgan also teased TV presenter Ulrika Jonsson about the details of private conversations she had had with Sven-Göran Eriksson, at the time the England football manager.The presenter of Newsnight told the Leveson inquiry how he went to a lunch hosted by Sir Victor Blank, the then chairman of Trinity Mirror, held on 20 September 2002, where the subject of phone hacking came up.Paxman said he was seated ... Continue reading →
TOKYO, Japan — In one respect, the decision by Tokyo Disneyland to allow a gay couple to hold their "wedding" at the theme park is a sign of progress in a country that has, until recently, largely ignored the issue of same-sex unions. But some campaigners have argued that leaving it to Mickey Mouse to give his blessing to Koyuki Higashi and her partner, Hiroko Masuhara — in a strictly symbolic ceremony — is also a mark of how far Japan has to go before it affords the same rights to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community as it does to heterosexual couples. Tokyo Disneyland condoned this and all future same-sex ceremonies after receiving an enquiry from Higashi. Cue a confused response from ... Continue reading →
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SEOUL, South Korea — Seven months before South Koreans elect their next president, only one thing is clear: the winner will not be the incumbent, Lee Myung Bak. Lee is constitutionally banned from seeking a second term, but the legacy of his eventful five years in office is proving critical in the fortunes of the men, and one woman, in the frame to replace him in the Blue House. Voters were expected to punish his ruling Saenuri Party in national assembly elections last month, only to see it narrowly retain the majority. Rather than giving an indication of who might lead South Korea next year, the result brought only more confusion. In the run-up to the assembly votes, polls had indicated widespread disaffection with the ... Continue reading →
