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Taylyn Washington-HarmonJuly 8, 2016

The Slack app Carebot is a prototype that seeks to help change how we think about analytics

What happens when you bring real-time, on-demand analytics to Slack?

Shan WangMay 5, 2016

Die Welt’s analytics system de-emphasizes clicks and demystifies what it considers a “quality” story

Every story’s performance reduced to a single score: a reductionist take on journalism or a way to make a news organization’s values concrete?

Joseph LichtermanMarch 17, 2016

The FT is launching a new analytics tool to make metrics more understandable for its newsroom

“This tool and the functionalities we’ve structured into it are very much trying to…translate into journalese, into newsroom vernacular, all of the metrics of engagement.”

Nicholas QuahMarch 8, 2016

Hot Pod: Decoding what makes a podcast a hit on the iTunes charts

Plus: 1 in 5 Americans now listens to podcasts (sort of), Night Vale expands, and WNYC goes local and limited-run to cover gentrification in Brooklyn.

Federica Cherubini and Rasmus Kleis NielsenFebruary 22, 2016

The next step: Moving from generic analytics to editorial analytics

A new report finds wide gaps in how different news outlets are using analytics to drive their editorial strategy: “Analytics can be about more than having a big screen with numbers that go up and down.”

Nicholas QuahFebruary 9, 2016

Hot Pod: What should an on-demand news podcast look like?

Plus: Remixing podcast talent to build new shows, Google prepares to enter the market in a big way, and how to avoid “radiosplaining.”

Public radio staffers across the U.S. lay out new guidelines for podcast audience measurement

Jonathan SeitzJanuary 19, 2016

From Nieman Reports: Melissa Bell of Vox Media on the online publisher’s embrace of Snapchat, its spirit of collaboration, and more

“You have to think about your brand as an interconnected ethos that should exist in multiple places.”

Shan WangJanuary 8, 2016

For McClatchy’s new head of news strategies, analytics and social traffic bolster good journalism

“It’s a beautiful thing when the powerful, public service, noble interests of journalism actually align with your business model.”

John WihbeyDecember 11, 2015

Investigating the network: The top 10 articles from the year in digital news and social media research

We sift through the academic journals so you don’t have to. Here are 10 of the most interesting studies about social and digital media published in 2015.

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