| Issue No. 2 | Delivering Your News Wisely | March 2002 |
| Newswise Links |
| Reporter Subscribers | |
| SciWire | 2155 |
| MedWire | 2314 |
| BizWire | 915 |
| LifeWire | 1345 |
| DailyWire | 745 |
| 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 January and preliminary
hit counts for February, as well as overall site statistics, click
here.
For your reference, we've archived your previous month's report here. |
| Newswise and Google |
| Recently, Newswise staff members researched the effectiveness of Google searching in finding clips of stories submitted to Newswise. We searched by headline for some of the most frequently hit stories from January and have included results below. We are continuing these investigations to see how we can put this type of research to work for you. View Results. |
| About this Report |
| In this report, we've included information on the effectiveness of Google searching to find releases published online, feedback from journalists at NBC, AP 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. We look forward to hearing from you. |
| Journalists Respond |
| Chris Zdeb, Edmonton Journal Gail Dutton, Freelance, CA Peter Reiss, NBC News Malcolm Ritter, Associated Press View Responses |
| Success Stories |
| New Scientist |
| Wake Forest University Babcock Graduate School of Management |
| View Success Stories |
| Submit a Success Story |
| Survey |
| This month's survey topic is Google searching. Take Survey. |
Newswise and Google Con't. |
As a part of our investigation of how we can use Google searching to better serve you, we hope to elicit your feedback about this type of clipping search. Please see the survey in this Monthly Report which covers this topic.
In the table below, you will find the results we received from Google searching two of the top-hit stories from January. We found the title of the story was the most effective search term--better than author's name or keywords, for example. We also found that Google gave us more comprehensive results
than Lycos, Dogpile, AltaVista or Ask Jeeves. Additionally, it was not worthwhile to search beyond the first 10 Google pages. Finally, there seemed to be a "when it rains it pours" effect. Inevitably, when we found one link to a story, we found many.
Your Individual ReportThis is the second edition of a new monthly report format in which you'll find:
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(If your institution had contributed stories in February 2002, data on those stories would appear here. You will find overall site statistics below.)
Table 1
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Newswise February 2002 PRELIMINARY Report
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HITS ON ALL INSTITUTIONS' NEWS RELEASES
By LIBRARY and TYPE OF STORY
(based on data gathered through 23-Mar-2002)
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Number of Type Access Counts
FEBRUARY of ---------------------
News Releases Story TOTAL Avg Median
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MEDNEWS LIBRARY
175 Research or Feature 23039 132 105
2 Policy 129 64 64
21 Announcement 430 20 12
SCINEWS LIBRARY
87 Research or Feature 9969 115 102
0 Policy -- -- --
14 Announcement 610 44 35
LIFENEWS LIBRARY
51 Research or Feature 3910 77 50
1 Policy 10 10 10
5 Announcement 81 16 9
6 Higher Ed Event 147 24 15
BIZNEWS LIBRARY
30 Research or Feature 2206 74 54
1 Policy 25 25 25
4 Announcement 49 12 13
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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 FINAL Report
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HITS ON ALL INSTITUTIONS' NEWS RELEASES
By LIBRARY and TYPE OF STORY
(based on data gathered through 23-Mar-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 22877 177 149
1 Policy 29 29 29
15 Announcement 394 26 15
SCINEWS LIBRARY
97 Research or Feature 16989 175 146
1 Policy 40 40 40
10 Announcement 448 45 40
LIFENEWS LIBRARY
38 Research or Feature 4061 107 96
1 Policy 12 12 12
16 Announcement 146 9 8
3 Higher Ed Event 165 55 54
BIZNEWS LIBRARY
31 Research or Feature 2478 80 64
0 Policy -- -- --
5 Announcement 69 14 11
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Journalists Respond |
| "Finding Newswise useful? Are you kidding!? It's a godsend especially
on slow news days! There are a couple of colleagues on Newswise and we've
occassionally commented how great it is. As Canadians, we look for ways to
localize the stories and this usually works quite well. We only wish there
was something like Newswise to promote research and expertise available on this side of the border. As with most requests I found a great expert for
nickname story though Newswise." --Chris Zdeb, Edmonton Journal |
| "I look it through every time it shows up, often referring items to colleagues." --Malcolm Ritter, Associated Press (AP) |
| "Newswise DailyWire is indispensable. I'm a freelance journalist for Popular Science, Genetic Engineering News and other magazines. I have queries out on four stories from yesterday's package. Usually, there are three or four each week that I query on. What I like best is the archive. I find that related stories crop up about one year (!) after the news release came out, and I can then go back and reference experts in the field, now that their work is nearer commercialization. If I think of any ways to fine tune the service, I'll let you know, but right now it's simply the best service available." --Gail Dutton, Freelance |
| "Newswise is great! I read it every day and have developed a few of the stories for air. I wouldn't change a thing." --Peter Reiss, NBC News, Discovery News This Week |
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Success Stories |
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New Scientist "In terms of pick up, the story has been republished all over the place, most recently in the Italian news weekly Internazionale. I don't have a definitive list yet, though I've heard it appeared in national newspapers in New Zealand, Denmark and France."
Wake Forest University Babcock Graduate School of Management "We had great success locally both in print and with TV, and have had more than 60 mentions/hits in all. An Associated Press story on it was picked up and published in 59 newspapers all over the country. It appeared in papers as large as the Cincinnati Enquirer and the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times, each with circulations of more than 325,000, to ones as small as the Parsons (Kan.) Sun (circ. 6,480), which happens to be the hometown of the professor, Gary Shoesmith. The clip count above does not include a call we received from a reporter from the National Post in Toronto, Canada. That contact came directly as a result of the Newswise posting."
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