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# Analytics for Journalists: some further reading
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2015/07/news-rewired-analytics-reading-list/
- Published: 2015-07-16T13:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2016-11-17T20:50:00.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: analytics, attention, links, metrics, news:rewired

![news:rewired](https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2015/07/IMG_9608-0-1600x900.jpg?resize=922%2C519)

I’ve just finished\* running a workshop on analytics for journalists [at news:rewired this afternoon](https://www.newsrewired.com/agenda-6/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com).

Here’s a selection of links I promised the attendees to allow them to explore some of the issues contained in the presentation in more detail:

- [One Trinity Mirror sentence that spells the death knell of journalism](http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2015/jun/10/one-trinity-mirror-sentence-that-spells-the-death-knell-of-journalism?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) – Roy Greenslade suggests that Trinity Mirror is sliding into clickbait journalism.
- [How do you put the reader at the heart of every newsroom decision?](https://davidhiggerson.wordpress.com/2015/07/02/how-do-you-put-the-reader-at-the-heart-of-every-newsroom-decision-share-the-data-and-love-the-data/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) – Trinity Mirror digital publishing director David Higgerson responds to Greenslade’s piece.
- [Reach and impact: news metrics you can use](http://maryhamilton.co.uk/2015/05/reach-and-impact-news-metrics-you-can-use/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) – some sensible thoughts from *The Guardian*‘s soon-to-be executive editor for audience Mary Hamilton on measuring impact beyond the numbers.
- [Content metrics aren’t bad, measuring the wrong things is bad](http://charman-anderson.com/2015/06/19/content-metrics-arent-bad-measuring-the-wrong-things-is-bad/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) – Kevin Anderson, Executive Editor, Lakes Group at Gannett, explores some of the dangers in metrics
- [Time vs the news](http://maryhamilton.co.uk/2014/03/time-vs-news/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) – Mary again, on the problems with attention as a measure.
- [The Traffic Factories: Metrics at Chartbeat, Gawker Media, and The New York Times](http://towcenter.org/research/traffic-factories/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) – A Tow Research Centre report into analytics use by Caitlin Petre

And let this fine five minute rant from [*The Guardian*‘s Chris Moran](https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/how-ophan-offers-bespoke-data-to-inform-content-at-the-guardian/s2/a563349/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) be a lesson to you all:

\## The Presentation \*Actually, a lie – I wrote this at midnight the night before, and scheduled the post…