Nov
11
How analytics impact journalists' sense of newsworthiness
New research suggests that traffic can influence your sense of what is newsworthy.
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Apr
10
How the Financial Times measures quality reads
The Financial Times is driving paying subscribers through smart use of analytics to monitor what they care about.
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Mar
07
There's a problem with "trending"
It’s Time to End ‘Trending’: The first problem with “trending” is that it selects and highlights content with no
Nov
12
Facebook acquires content sharing tracking tool CrowdTangle
Alex Heath for Business Insider: Facebook has acquired CrowdTangle, a four-year-old tool used by publishers like Vox, BuzzFeed, and Mic
Jul
16
Analytics for Journalists: some further reading
I’ve just finished* running a workshop on analytics for journalists at news:rewired this afternoon. Here’s a selection
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Jun
16
Journalism: a craft with some useful metrics
Martin Belam on the reasons for his latest post: And having just sat through an event where one of the
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Jan
19
The big challenge: good, unsharable content
The content we talk about least right now is content that gets a lot of reads, but no social media
Nov
06
Dark traffic rising? No need to panic
This is not news. The fact that people think it is is news: The Guardian’s website is being swamped
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Sep
01
Gawker plumbs the Facebook traffic valley
Another reminder of the dangers of building your business on one company’s platform: Those are Gawker’s figures – and
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May
16
Why do we obsess over home pages no-one uses?
Talking of homepage traffic, Zachary Seward has actually looked into the NYT homepage traffic for Quartz: Traffic to the New
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