According to Hitwise the poor economy has been a boon for online classified sites. The biggest beneficary – Craigslist. Yup, the hippe from San Fran with under 30 staffer might be able to shutter newspaper and job sites with job listing from $25 and $5 erotic service listing.
Intersting fact about online classifieds:

Craigslist visits increase [...]

At the Newspaper Association of America’s annual meeting earlier this week, news from McClatchy (#2 behind Gannett in the US) is that 15% of advertising revenue comes from online or digital revenue.
Its easy to agree that digital revenue is at a higher profit margin, but the true question is the revenue mix between national versus [...]