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    Access actionable, accessible newsroom data with Metrics for News

    All news outlets have stories that are central to the mission of their work, but aren’t necessarily the most popular with readers. Data gathered from tools like MFN can help find creative ways to maintain this important coverage in a way that resonates with the audience.

    January 23, 2025
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    Marking a decade of Metrics for News

    Liz Worthington has interacted with more than 800 publishers worldwide and worked directly with 400 of them over the past 10 years.

    September 18, 2024
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    How Metrics for News helped Crain Communications launch a newsroom in Michigan

    By sending data from their targeted audiences in Adobe Analytics into MFN, Crain was able to more clearly understand what topics, categories, and even story types were engaging readers in key parts of their coverage area.

    June 24, 2024
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    Explore your data: Make the most of custom reports

    Custom reports enable you to easily access and organize your raw data to more deeply explore your data and answer important audience questions. A core [...]

    April 2, 2024
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    Helpful tips: Messaging metrics in the newsroom

    A weekly newsletter. Open office hours. One-on-one chats. These are just some ideas to consider if you want to get more people talking about metrics [...]

    January 19, 2023
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    How metrics & surveys can help you better understand & serve your community

    A recent cohort hosted by Metrics for News – Reaching New Audiences – brought together publishers from around the world to look at data-driven strategies to reach new audiences. [...]

    May 12, 2022
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    Moving on from the way it’s always been done

    A recent cohort hosted by Metrics for News – Reaching New Audiences – brought together publishers from around the world to look at data-driven strategies to reach new audiences. [...]

    April 7, 2022
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    Want to find time for more enterprise reporting? Dive into analytics.

    Analytics don’t have to clash with journalistic values. Here’s how one team of reporters has used analytics to reinforce its mission. When journalists think of [...]

    July 1, 2019
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    From print-first to audience-first: Using analytics to change the newsroom mindset

    For the past two years, the Virginian Pilot’s newsroom goals have not included a print component — a huge shift in its 154-year history. “Our [...]

    June 1, 2019
  • Article

    How to use analytics to identify and build a popular new beat

    A local news publisher in Norfolk, VA, has been using data to drive editorial decisions — a journey closely tied to its digital transition since [...]

    April 1, 2019
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