Every year, The Bivings Group conducts a study of the web features of America’s largest newspapers as a way to gauge how papers are dealing with the threat and opportunity presented by the rise of the Internet as a news source. Given the challenging economic climate, we were particularly excited to complete this year’s version and to see how newspapers are expanding their web programs to deal with the crisis the industry is in. Our research examined the websites of the top 100 newspapers in the United States, as determined by circulation (via the Audit Bureau of Circulations). We evaluated all of the websites on the presence of lack of various web features. You can access summary findings below: