NEWSWISE SPECIAL REPORT
Delivering Your News WiselyJune 2002

Newswise and Freelancers

The survey we sent to journalists contained the following three questions:

1) How often do you use stories found on the Wires?
2) What type of stories do you find most helpful? (research, feature, education, etc.)
3) How do you use Newswise stories? (rewrite as news items, such as briefs, write features, use as is, other)

The results from the survey are as follows:

How often do you use stories found on the Wires?

WeeklyMonthlySporadically
34%43%23%

What type of stories do you find most helpful?

ResearchFeaturePolicyAnnouncement
72%28%0%0%

How do you use Newswise stories?

RewriteBackground ResearchGenerate IdeasFind Contacts
20%58%38%22%
The Journalists who responded to the survey write for:
Daily Mail (UK)
Biography
Healthwatch
New Woman
Family Circle
San Francisco Chronicle
Biomednet
American Health
WCBS Radio
Men's Health
Cosmopolitan
NPR
Good Medecine
Discover
BioScience
Science
Secure Retirement
Boy's Life
Parenting
National Geographic
Latina
Complete Woman
New Social Worker
Although the freelance journalists are using your material in a variety of ways, they are, indeed, using it. Newswise has 1,060 freelance journalists (national and international) subscribing to one or more wires. The publications they write for vary from The Daily Mail (UK) to Parenting Magazine and across the spectrum of topics. The number of publications they have reported to us that they have written for totals 1,696, although they often write for more publications than they report. Do you have suggestions for survey questions for Newswise subscribing journalists?

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For more information, please contact us at 434-296-9417 or info@newswise.com. To find out about Newswise International journalists, please visit our International Journalist Special Report. You can see more information about our Staff journalists in ourStaff Journalist Special Report.

This is excerpted from our November Monthly Report

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