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What’s behind the success of The Logic

William Turvill of Press Gazette writes about Canadian-based The Logic, which covers tech and innovation in that country and now has 18 journalists on its staff.

Turvill writes, “The Logic aims to publish one or two stories a day in total. ‘That really reduces the requirement on the reporters to feel like they’re on a hamster wheel always having to churn out copy for scale’s sake,’ says Skok.

“‘The reporters and editors are our products. And for so long in a lot of organisations, that just hasn’t been the case.’

“He adds that reporters are not set targets or quotas for work – ‘we don’t rely on analytics to determine what they do. If anything they want more than we give them. We really try to keep them separate.

“‘Our view is, we’ve told our readers one to two really strong, original pieces of journalism a day, plus a daily briefing that comes out every afternoon that rounds up with some smart analysis of what’s been happening in the world.'”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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