Forbes.com hits record in April

Forbes.com had 45.8 million unique visitors in April according to comScore, a record for the business news website.

That’s an increase of 30.2 percent from the 35.2 million unique visitors it had in April 2015.

In comparison, CNNMoney.com had 25.8 million unique visitors, Bloomberg.com saw 24.9 million unique visitors, and WSJ.com saw 23.8 million unique visitors.

In addition, Forbes magazine has a print readership of 6.8 million readers, according to Spring 2016 MRI numbers – a new all-time high in its 98-year history. Last year, that number was 6.2 million.

The April 19 issue with Ashton Kutcher on the cover was the highest audience ever for a single issue at 8.83 million readers.

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.