Print or web? Leading USA newspapers fighting for popularity

This article is devoted to the analysis of the USA press leaders, the newspapers, which are members of the country's top-5 by circulation during many years: The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The New York Times и The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post. They are characterized by such parameters as the format, content and place in the national top. The typology is supplemented with the newspapers' comparing on such an acute criterion as web-popularity with the analysis of their PageRank and place in the national and world ratings in the web statistics of Alexa Internet and Compete.com. On the basis of the analysis we made a general conclusion about the place and the demand for these newspapers.