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CNBC digital use rises in January

CNBC.com was visited by 6.6 million unique users in January, a 7 percent increase compared to the same time period last year, according to comScore Media Metrix.

The business news networks other applications also saw an increase in the first month of the year.

CNBC’s real-time iPhone application posted 604,000 unique visitors, an 11 percent increase year-over-year, according to Omniture. The iPhone app recorded its second-highest uniques ever in January 2013.

CNBC’s real-time iPad app posted 456,000 unique visitors, a 13 percent increase year-over-year. The iPad app recorded its third-highest uniques ever in January 2013.

CNBC’s mobile web recorded 2.6 million unique visitors, a 28 percent increase year-over-year.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.