NY Times Newspaper Article (average word count)

Published by: jack 2009-01-08

What is the average word count of a New York Times newspaper article generally? Alternatively, if the information is out there by topic (e.g., local, national, international) or type of article (e.g., editorial, feature, news)that would be even more helpful. Please include citation/reference.

Hello Eliskt, According to the annual report of American Journalism, the average article length at the New York Times is about 1,200 words. ?The length of articles shifts with newspaper size as well. Larger papers, not surprisingly, run longer articles on their section fronts. At the very largest general circulation papers in the country - The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, USA Today and The Washington Post - the majority of articles, 64 percent, were more than 1,000 words. It was closer to a quarter of all articles at the midsized papers, and just more than one in ten articles at the smallest circulation papers.? -------------------------------------------------- Story Length by Circulation Category Percent of all Stories -------------------------------------------------- Story Length Large Medium Small -------------------------------------------------- 1,000 or Less 37% 71% 87% More than 1,000 64 29 13 -------------------------------------------------- ?Looked at another way, the average article length at the largest papers was about 1,200 words. The average was just more than 800 words at midsize papers and fell to less than 600 words at the smallest papers.? The State of the News Media http://www.stateofthenewsmedia.org/narrative_newspapers_contentanalysis.asp?cat=2&media=2 View content summary tables here: http://www.stateofthenewsmedia.org/topline/topline_newspaper.html Additional information that might interest you. ?When it came to the national papers, The New York Times once again led all others in arts and culture coverage. The volume of the Gray Lady?s output remained greater by an order of magnitude than at any of the metropolitan newspapers we monitored. This was especially true when contrasted with the diminutive coverage at the two other national dailies, The Wall Street Journal and USA Today. The Times?s newshole for arts and culture journalism was more than twice as big as those at any of the metropolitan newspapers in Reporting the Arts II, except for the Chicago Tribune and the San Francisco Chronicle.? The New York Times ?Compared with figures from October 1998, the overall coverage at the Times stayed roughly the same size. Its volume of listings went up slightly while its newshole for articles went down, but its total number of articles increased. There were almost 1,000 A&C pieces published by the paper during October 2003. This larger number of articles in a smaller overall newshole amounts to a shorter average article length, a trend seen across the country. Even after the cuts, however, the average article in the Times was longer than at any local newspaper we studied.? ?The Times was the only newspaper we monitored to devote more space both to the performing arts and to books than to any other single arts discipline. And popular music received a lower priority than average. It was the only newspaper to file more articles on classical music than on pop and rock. Television, it seems, was treated as an afterthought.? ?The Times?s overall story count on the performing arts remained constant compared with five years ago, with a slight change of emphasis?there was more on theater, less on dance and opera. In addition, the Times led in coverage of both the visual and the decorative arts. The paper?s story count for photography and architecture was more than double that of any other newspaper in our study; its coverage of painting has almost doubled compared with five years ago.? The Dailies Old Formats, New Challenges http://www.columbia.edu/cu/najp/publications/researchreports/24-35metro%20dailies.pdf Search criteria: "NY Times" number of words in an average article "Average article length " "New York Times" article Word count New York Times I hope the information provided is helpful! Best regards, Bobbie7

Webster University North Florida Region RESEARCH PAPER REFERENCE GUIDELINES::
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