All the Analytics on Priceonomics Articles Are Now Public
(Rohin Dhar / Priceonomics)
You can even see which headlines were tested and performed best.
Do We Need a Bechdel Test for News?
(Alisa Miller / Thoughts on Journalism)
PRI’s Inclusiveness Report measures the diversity of bylines and sources.
Trump’s Climate-Change Conspiracy Was The Most Retweeted Tweet During The First Debate
(Harrison Weber / VentureBeat)
Mentions of Trump vastly outnumbered mentions of Clinton.
How To Set Up Analytics On Your AMP Page
(Arudea Mahartianto / Google Analytics Solutions)
A helpful walk-through for AMP users.
Facebook Overestimated Key Video Metric for Two Years
(Suzanne Vranica and Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal)
Views under three seconds didn’t count for the average. Digiday has an explainer.
From MetricShift
How We Measured Impact for a Solutions Journalism Story on Poverty by Talia Stroud and Shannon McGregor
A Quantitative Basis for Measuring Media Impact at the Media Consortium by Jo Ellen Green Kaiser
Growing Community Engagement at the Los Angeles Times by Daniela Gerson
CIR’s Impact Tracker: How to Use It and Why You Need It by Lindsay Green-Barber
Special Series: Measuring Impact by Jason Alcorn
Trump Stories Get the Lion’s Share of Engagement Online by Jason Alcorn
The Power of Empathy, Personal Narrative and More Lessons from the Story Movements Conference by Elia Powers
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Jason Alcorn (@jasonalcorn) is the Metrics Editor for MediaShift. In addition to his work with MediaShift, he is an analyst with the Media Impact Project and works as a consultant with non-profits and newsrooms.
