LagniappeMobile.com Tops Mobile Press-Register's AL.com as Favorite Source of News

MOBILE, Ala. - June 8, 2014 - PRLog -- In a local survey, LagniappeMobile.com has beaten the Mobile Press-Register’s digital news service as the area’s favorite source of online news.

The 1,749 members of the Business Forum of Mobile & Baldwin Counties were asked, “What is your favorite ONLINE source of local news?”

Members were given seven choices: AL.com, Fox10TV.com, LagniappeMobile.com, Local15TV.com, WEARTV.com, WKRG.com, and Other.

The survey was conducted over a two week period from May 26 to June 8.

LagniappeMobile.com topped the list as the choice of 30 percent of voters. AL.com received 28 percent of the votes while Fox10TV finished in third place with 15 percent.

Rounding out the results, WKRG.com garnered 11 percent of the vote, Other recieved 9 percent and Local15TV.com finished with 7 percent. WEARTV.com did not receive any votes.

“It surprises me,” said William Bruce who moderates the group that was surveyed, “that Lagniappe beat the Press-Register. When the Newhouse family fired most of the local Press-Register’s employees and stopped publishing daily,” he continued, “they announced a ‘digital first’ policy of delivering local news online via AL.com.

“It must be disappointing to them,” Bruce concluded, “to now be playing second fiddle in a market that they dominated for so long.”

The surveyed group, Business Forum of Mobile & Baldwin Counties, was founded in 2009 and has grown rapidly. The group’s primary presence is online using the LinkedIn discussion group platform. The group is a networking and discussion forum of the issues affecting the business community in the two counties.