- NewsLynx
- Introduction
- 1. Executive Summary
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2.
Introduction
- 2.1. Definitions
- 2.2. Previous Research
- 2.3. From Monitoring and Evaluation to Media Impact
- 2.4. The Rise of Nonprofit Journalism
- 2.5. The Quantification of Content
- 2.6. Current Efforts
- 2.7. Qualitative Projects
- 2.8. Quantitative Projects
- 2.9. Internal Newsroom Tools
- 2.10. Where NewsLynx Fits: Incorporating Qualitative and Quantitative
- 3. Research Findings
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Platform Description
- 4.1. The Model
- 4.2. The Impact Framework, as Implemented
- 4.3. Model Concept: Impact Tags
- 4.4. Model Concept: Categories
- 4.5. Model Concept: Levels
- 4.6. The Combination of Tags, Categories, and Levels
- 4.7. Other Concepts for Possible Inclusion
- 4.8. Model Concept: Subject Tags
- 4.9. NewsLynx Interface
- 4.10. This Story’s Life
- 4.11. How People Are Reading and Finding It
- 4.12. Who Tweeted It?
- 5. Newsroom Use
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Recommendations and Open Questions
- 6.1. Impact Work Practices: Recommendations
- 6.2. Commit Resources
- 6.3. Integrate with Editorial
- 6.4. Start Small
- 6.5. Publish Both for Humans and Machines By Using Standards
- 6.6. Impact Work Practices: Open Questions
- 6.7. Building Impact Tools: Recommendations
- 6.8. Building Impact Tools: Open Questions
- 7. Future Paths for NewsLynx
- 8. Conclusion
- 9. Appendix A
- 10. Appendix B
- 11. Footnotes
- 12. Citations
Platform Description
We designed NewsLynx around two sets of tasks where staff found difficulties:
Managing an event-tracking workflow while juggling other responsibilities.
Understanding what it means for a story to “do well” and what happened to cause that.
NewsLynx has two main interfaces: a workflow-management tool for collecting and organizing indications of impact (mostly done in a section called the Approval River) and a section for analyzing stories’ impact where comparisons and related metrics can be seen.
Below is a diagram of the site layout. The next sections will go into detail about our impact framework and each of the platform’s interfaces. For a more technical walkthrough and code repositories, please see our GitHub: http://github.com/newslynx.
