Hard numbers.(Currents)(Brief article)(Statistical data)

26.9 million live video streams CNN.com Live delivered on inauguration clay (more than five times the previous record of 5.3 million last year on election day)

8,500 status updates posted on Facebook during the first minute of Obama's speech

600 000 status updates posted through the CNN.COm Live Facebook feed as of 1:15 p.m. on inauguration day (Facebook partnered with CNN.COm to enable viewers to comment)

38 million Americans who watched inauguration coverage on TV, the most since Ronald Reagan took office in 1981 (41.8 million)

$600,000 amount the Hartford Courant will save annually on travel by cutting its last major league baseball beat (Red Sox)

14 percent interest rate attached to the $250 million Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helu loaned The New York Times

600 million [euro] ($769 million)--amount the French government is pledging to help the country's newspaper industry (proposal includes tax breaks for delivery services, efforts to decrease printing costs, and free newspaper subscriptions for eighteen-year-olds)

6 number of years Iraq has been the deadliest country in the world for the press

11 journalists killed in Iraq in 2008

187 journalists and media workers killed on duty in Iraq since the beginning of the war in March 2003

The Associated Press, Editor & Publisher, The New York Times, Committee to Protect Journalists

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