A report on blog visitors

Here's a mini-report on blog visitors:

The chart shows the number of visitors in each of the last 12 months. The largest number was in NOctober. The number of visitors increased after these important events:

March 13 McClatchy announced it would acquire Knight Ridder for $4.5 million, but decided to sell a dozen of the papers including the Beacon Journal.

June 7 Sale of Beacon Journal to Black Papers.

June 26 Knight Ridder shareholders approved the sale of Knight-Ridder to McClatchy.

August 1 Sale of the Beacon Journal to Black Papers closed officially and the Beacon Journal, original flagship of Knight Newspapers, thus became the flagship--or largest newspaper--of Black Papers Ltd.

August 22 The blog reported massive staff cuts at the Beacon.

In the following three months we were reporting on the departure of many key staff members.

A recent check of the last 100 visitors to the BJ Retirees blog shows they were from 15 different cities in Ohio and 21 cities from other states. Some, of course, visited more than once and some could not be identified from a specific location.

The Ohio communities were Akron, Alliance, Aurora, Barberton, Canton, Cleveland, Columbus, Cuyahoga Falls, Dayton, Hudson, Kent, Massillon, Wadsworth, Warren and Youngstown.

Cities in other states were Alexandria, VA; Columbia, SC; Grand Junction, CO; Great Falls, VA; Huston, TX; Indianapolis, IN; Macomb, IL; Memphis, TN New York, NY; Oak Park, Mi; Oakland, CA; Omaha, NE; Peoria, AZ; Rosemead, CA; Seattle, WA; Venice, FL; Washington, DC; Wichita, KS; Port Dalhousie, Ontario, and Oyama and Sooke, British Columbia. We also get visitors from France, China and New Zealand.