| Issue No. 7 | Delivering Your News Wisely | June/July 2002 |
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| MedWire | 2280 |
| BizWire | 882 |
| LifeWire | 1306 |
| DailyWire | 855 |
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| Your Individual Report |
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(preliminary), as well as overall site statistics, click below: June/July 2002. For your reference, we've archived your previous month's report here: |
| Journal Citations and Newswise Stories |
| This month Newswise reports on the effect a journal citation has on the attention a news story receivesfrom reporters. View Results. |
| About this Report |
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| Journalists Respond |
| Christine McMurray, NBC News Jeanie Tavitas-Williams, San Antonio Express-News Laura Boast, EXN, Discovery Channel Canada Jim Shamp, Durham (NC) Herald-Sun View Responses |
| Success Stories |
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Journal Citations and Newswise Stories Con't. |
This month, Newswise studied the effect journal citation has on the popularity of or hit counts of news releases. We limited out study to data gathered on releases submitted during the first six months of 2002. We also monitored the relationship of citations to embargo. The chart below shows how many news releases, by category, included citations.
News Submitted by Subject from January to June 2002
| Library | Total Stories | Citations | % w. Citation |
| Med | 1276 | 581 | 46% |
| Sci | 713 | 232 | 33% |
| Biz | 199 | 29 | 15% |
| Life | 475 | 88 | 16% |
| Total | 2629 | 920 | 35% |
*The category numbers sum to more than the total number of stories due to occasional cross posting to more than one section
Only forty-seven of the news releases with citations were not research stories. Among those 47 were 4 Announcements, 4 Policy and 39 Feature stories. Only thirteen of these 47 non-research releases were embargoed. Embargoes should be used only for news releases with a citation for a publication or a meeting. Ninety-five percent of the news releases submitted from January to June 2002 that contained a citation were research stories. When we look only at the research stories, the results are even more striking.
Research News Submitted by Subject from January to June 2002
| Library | Total Stories | Citations | % w. Citation |
| Med | 807 | 559 | 69% |
| Sci | 328 | 219 | 68% |
| Biz | 69 | 26 | 37% |
| Life | 129 | 79 | 61% |
| Total | 1317 | 873 | 66% |
Sixty-six percent of research releases submitted in this period had citations.
The chart below shows that many of the research releases with citations were embargoed. Probably, most of the research stories were from published results or presentations at meetings but were not documented in the release. During the last month, for example, we have begun adding citations for presentations at meetings. We encourage you always to include the publication and date or meeting and date in your releases.
Embargoed Research Stories with Citations
| Library | Emb. Cit. | % Cit. W/ Emb. |
| Med | 316 | 57% |
| Sci | 69 | 32% |
| Biz | 2 | 8% |
| Life | 24 | 32% |
| Total | 408 | 47% |
Our next step was to review the top 10 hit stories each month in each category from January to June to see what percent of these stories contained a journal citation. The following chart shows, by category, what percent of the top ten hit stories contained citations.
Citations in Top 10 Hit News Releases by Section over 6 Months
| MedNews | SciNews | BizNews | LifeNews | All Sections | |||||
| 38 | 63% | 26 | 43% | 26 | 44% | 15 | 25% | 26 | 43% |
From this data you can see that although:
--MedNews stories with a citation are 46% of the total, but comprise 63% of the top hit stories.
--SciNews stories with a citation are 33% of the total, but comprise 43% of the top hit stories.
--BizNews stories with a citation are 15% of the total, but comprise 8% of the top hit stories.
--LifeNews stories with a citation are 16% of the total, but comprise 32% of the top hit stories
Similarly, 60% of the top hit stories are research releases, whereas research stories are only 50% of the total. In fact, in each section (Sci, Med, Life and Biz) research stories represented a higher proportion of the tip hit stories than they did in the library as a whole.
From this, it is clear that journalists prefer research news, particularly research releases with a journal citation to any other type of news release. This was confirmed by what journalists say. In the June monthly report, we presented a survey of freelance journalist, in which 72% said that they prefer research stories. This is especially true for MedNews and SciNews, which have a greater number of research releases than BizNews and LifeNews.
Your Individual ReportThis is the seventh edition of a new monthly report format in which you'll find:
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(If your institution had contributed stories in July 2002, data on those stories would appear here. You will find overall site statistics below.)
Table 1
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Newswise July 2002 PRELIMINARY Report
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HITS ON ALL INSTITUTIONS' NEWS RELEASES
By LIBRARY and TYPE OF STORY
(based on data gathered through 17-Aug-2002)
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Number of Type Access Counts
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News Releases Story TOTAL Avg Median
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MEDNEWS LIBRARY
139 Research or Feature 18592 134 119
3 Policy 348 116 66
16 Announcement 312 20 17
SCINEWS LIBRARY
81 Research or Feature 15329 189 140
1 Policy 44 44 44
9 Announcement 349 39 41
LIFENEWS LIBRARY
64 Research or Feature 5835 91 81
0 Policy -- -- --
8 Announcement 115 14 12
1 Higher Ed Event 89 89 89
BIZNEWS LIBRARY
36 Research or Feature 5164 143 93
1 Policy 16 16 16
4 Announcement 87 22 19
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(If your institution had contributed stories in June 2002, data on those stories would appear here. You will find overall site statistics below.)
Table 1
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Newswise June 2002 FINAL Report
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HITS ON ALL INSTITUTIONS' NEWS RELEASES
By LIBRARY and TYPE OF STORY
(based on data gathered through 17-Aug-2002)
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Number of Type Access Counts
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News Releases Story TOTAL Avg Median
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MEDNEWS LIBRARY
158 Research or Feature 24240 153 128
4 Policy 218 54 49
21 Announcement 396 19 13
SCINEWS LIBRARY
111 Research or Feature 22530 203 157
3 Policy 114 38 42
13 Announcement 404 31 26
LIFENEWS LIBRARY
47 Research or Feature 6314 134 108
4 Policy 67 17 11
10 Announcement 174 17 12
3 Higher Ed Event 103 34 18
BIZNEWS LIBRARY
26 Research or Feature 2987 115 106
2 Policy 19 10 10
3 Announcement 23 8 7
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