| Issue No. 1 | Delivering Your News Wisely | February 2002 |
| Newswise Links |
| Reporter Subscribers | |
| SciWire | 2191 |
| MedWire | 2353 |
| BizWire | 926 |
| LifeWire | 1375 |
| DailyWire | 734 |
| Acknowledgements |
| Earle Holland |
| Becky Soglin |
| Suggestion Box |
| If you have any comments or suggestions about how Newswise can better serve you, please contact us. |
| Your Individual Report |
| To view your individual hit counts for December and preliminary hit counts for January, as well as overall site statistics, click here. |
| Newswise and the New York Times |
| Recently, Newswise staff members investigated how many of our subscribing journalists at the New York Times used news releases distributed through Newswise. We had startling results and have documented them for you in this report. View Results. |
| About this New Format |
| Welcome to your Newswise Monthly Report. As you can see, we have a new format. It will deliver your individual hit counts and general data, share feedback from our subscribing journalists and your peers, and give you information regarding the effectiveness of Newswise. In this report, we've included information on New York Times reporters use of Newswise, feedback from journalists at UPI, NBC and many other media outlets, and success stories from participating institutions. We encourage your feedback (see the survey and suggestion box). It helps us evaluate Newswise and make changes to better suit your needs (see Acknowledgements). We hope you will find this new format useful and look forward to receiving it each month. We look forward to hearing from you. |
| Journalists Respond |
| Jane Oppermann, The Daily Herald, Illinois Kevin Dowling, Freelance, UK Sarah Smith, Parenting Magazine Helen Chickering, NBC News Channel, North Carolina Michael Martin, United Press International (UPI) Todd Husty, WESH-TV (NBC Orlando) View Responses |
| Success Stories |
| University of Utah |
| American Psychological Association (APA) |
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| Survey |
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Newswise and the New York Times Cont'd |
After carefully matching up NY Times stories from November 1, 2001 to January 31, 2002
against news releases which had been submitted to Newswise we found:
Three New York Times journalists who subscribe to Newswise wires regularly wrote articles based
on news releases sent on our wires. Twenty of the stories written by these three journalists
from November to January were from Newswise. The chart below lists these stories by
journalist. We have included the date the news release was submitted to Newswise, a link
to the release on our site, the submitting institution, the date the story was published
in the New York Times and a link to the New York Times article.
While it is not possible to prove that these reporters used Newswise as the source for the
story, the pattern indicates that they did.
| NW Date | Newswise Filename | Institution | NYTimes Date | NYTimes Story |
| 1-26-02 | COLON2.JHM | Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions | 1-31-02 | New Gene Test May Provide Early Signs of Colon Cancer |
| 1-11-02 | LACTOSE.UCL | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences | 1-14-02 | As Scientists Pinpoint the Genetic Reason for Lactose Intolerance, Unknowns Remain |
| 1-11-02 | ACCRED.UMI | University of Michigan | 1-22-02 | What Hospitals' Scores Don't Measure |
| 1-10-02 | STROKE14.HRT | American Heart Association (AHA) | 1-22-02 | M.R.I. Zooms In on Stroke Candidates |
| 1-8-02 | MCP2.MMC | Mayo Clinic | 1-22-02 | Piercing's Popularity, Beyond the Ears |
| 1-3-02 | STROKE13.HRT | American Heart Association (AHA) | 1-29-02 | Linking Anxiety, Depression and Strokes |
| 12-21-01 | KINGSLEY.SUM | Stanford University Medical Center | 1-8-02 | Genes Help Identify Oldest Human Population |
| 12-19-01 | PACIFIER.ADA | American Dental Association (ADA) | 1-1-02 | Experts Revisit Perils of Thumb-Sucking |
| 12-15-01 | JAVAJOLT.UAZ | University of Arizona | 1-1-02 | A Pick-Me-Up for Sagging Mental Acuity |
| 12-15-01 | WOMEN2.AAN | American Academy of Neurology (AAN) | 1-1-02 | A Gain From Hormone Replacement |
| 12-4-01 | FATSTUDY.PUR | Purdue University | 12-11-01 | On the Tongue, Fat Passes Taste Test |
| 11-21-01 | SIBLING.MSU | Michigan State University | 12-4-01 | Asthma Risk Often Begins Before Birth |
| 11-15-01 | EBVIRUS.TMB | University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston | 11-27-01 | Off to Mars, Then to the Drugstore |
| 11-14-01 | OSTROFF.MSK | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | 11-27-01 | Help for Those Willing to Kick a Habit |
| 11-10-01 | ATTITUDE.JHM | Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions | 11-27-01 | In Heart Disease, Head Can Be an Ally |
| 11-10-01 | GARLIC.ASM | American Society for Microbiology (ASM) | 11-27-01 | Keeping Malaria at Bay, With Garlic |
| 11-10-01 | LYME.ASM | American Society for Microbiology (ASM) | 11-20-01 | Lyme Ticks May Be Rolling on the River |
| 11-6-01 | PAIN2.AAN | American Academy of Neurology (AAN) | 11-20-01 | Easing Pain Rooted in Nervous System |
| 11-1-01 | DOWNS.UMI | University of Michigan | 11-13-01 | Early Walking for Babies With Down's |
| 11-1-01 | RESTENOS.HRT | American Heart Association (AHA) | 11-13-01 | After Angioplasty, Silent Symptoms |
Your Individual ReportThis is the first edition of a new monthly report format in which you'll find:
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(If your institution had contributed stories in January 2002, data on those stories would appear here. You will find overall site statistics below.)
Table 1
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Newswise January 2002 PRELIMINARY Report
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HITS ON ALL INSTITUTIONS' NEWS RELEASES
By LIBRARY and TYPE OF STORY
(based on data gathered through 12-Feb-2002)
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Number of Type Access Counts
JANUARY of ---------------------
News Releases Story TOTAL Avg Median
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MEDNEWS LIBRARY
129 Research or Feature 17027 132 104
1 Policy 25 25 25
15 Announcement 276 18 13
SCINEWS LIBRARY
97 Research or Feature 12010 124 102
1 Policy 25 25 25
10 Announcement 320 32 28
LIFENEWS LIBRARY
38 Research or Feature 2317 61 45
1 Policy 10 10 10
16 Announcement 137 9 7
3 Higher Ed Event 40 13 16
BIZNEWS LIBRARY
31 Research or Feature 1300 42 33
0 Policy -- -- --
5 Announcement 49 10 9
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(If your institution had contributed stories in December 2001, data on those stories would appear here. You will find overall site statistics below.)
Table 1
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Newswise December 2001 FINAL Report
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HITS ON ALL INSTITUTIONS' NEWS RELEASES
By LIBRARY and TYPE OF STORY
(based on data gathered through 12-Feb-2002)
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Number of Type Access Counts
News of ---------------------
Releases Story TOTAL Avg Median
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MEDNEWS LIBRARY
123 Research or Feature 15512 126 101
1 Policy 22 22 22
22 Announcement 589 27 22
SCINEWS LIBRARY
80 Research or Feature 9677 121 100
1 Policy 195 195 195
9 Announcement 487 54 62
LIFENEWS LIBRARY
64 Research or Feature 4301 67 52
1 Policy 5 5 5
14 Announcement 92 7 5
1 Higher Ed Event 53 53 53
BIZNEWS LIBRARY
32 Research or Feature 1903 59 47
0 Policy -- -- --
2 Announcement 32 16 16
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Journalists Respond |
| "I'm a freelance journalist in the UK and I find your service an invaluable source of leads. I don't know why our own universities can't pool and publish information in a similarly cooperative and coordinated way." --Kevin Dowling, Freelance, UK |
| "How am I enjoying Newswise? I love it, just love it!! What a resource! I've already used several wires for columns from your site, am currently working with someone at The Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, thanks to Newswise." --Jane Oppermann, The Daily Herald, Barrington, Illinois |
| I've found Newswise to be very useful. I was signed up at my last job, too (at Psychology Today) and it's wonderful how I've found great leads on it for both PT and Parenting. --Sarah Smith, Parenting Magazine |
| I love Newswise - use it daily for our NBC feed -thanks! --Helen Chickering, NBC News Channel, North Carolina |
| Ran two Newswise stories that turned out well. One turned up on CNN and DrudgeReport (about Republicans having more nightmares than Democrats). It was exclusive to you and we broke it (haven't seen it anywhere else and the two news companies that picked it up sourced us). --Michael Martin, United Press International (UPI) |
| I've been subscribing and really using your service for, what?, 5 years? We just had another story picked up by NBC... a story we did because of your service (kids' back-packs). Thanks for being our "silent scoop" partner. --Todd Husty, WESH-TV (NBC Orlando) |
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Acknowledgements |
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To recognize contributions to our collaboration at Newswise, we want to thank those of you who make suggestions to this resource for journalists. Second, we want to encourage all of you to participate in this way. ***
Earle Holland, Director, Research Communications, Ohio State University, suggested the new "preliminary" reports on the most recent month's data. ***
Becky Soglin, Associate Editor II, University of Iowa Health Center, suggested that we add the embargo time to the embargo date in the various Newswise wires. Including the embargo time with the date in the wires further protects the material from an inadvertant early release, and we are happy to add add this new feature to the wires immediately. |
Success Stories |
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University of Utah
American Psychological Association (APA)
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