Teaching newsrooms to track impact
Pedro Burgos, IJNet,For many newsrooms, tracking analytics has become a useful tool to keep tabs on their audience’s interests, the reach of a story or what the conversation is around certain topics. As more organizations look at digital subscriptions, membership and donation models, tracking impact has become more relevant.
Measuring and publicizing the impact a news organization has in a community or on the issues it covers helps build trust and connect potential subscribers and donor to the journalistic mission.
This article, from the International Journalists’ Network, describes the two main questions newsrooms have to answer in order to define what impact means to them and to help reporters and editors be more aware of tracking it.