CNBC's digital ops post record March

Business news channel CNBC‘s digital operations reported record numbers in March.

CNBC.com had its best month ever in both uniques and page views. According to the latest data from comScore Media Metrix, the site was visited by 7.8 million unique users last month, an 83 percent increase compared to the same time period last year.

The site also recorded 381 million page views, a 64 percent increase year-over-year.

CNBC’s mobile site also had their best month ever in terms of both monthly unique visitors and page views. The site attracted more than 2 million uniques and more than 76 million page views, a 50 percent increase compared to the same time period as last year, according to Omniture.

CNBC iPhone app had its best month ever in terms of both monthly unique visitors and page views. Year-over-year, the app grew uniques by 45 percent and page views by 91 percent, according to Omniture.

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.