Categories: OLD Media Moves

Reuters starts sending web traffic data to editorial staff

Leela de Kretser, the managing editor of Reuters.com, has started sending out a daily email to the editorial staff to let them know what stories are getting the most traffic.

Here is Tuesday’s email:

Here starts the first of a daily traffic report from Reuters.com:

We had an excellent day yesterday, particularly on mobile, where we had the 4th highest visitors ever to Reuters.com. While bacon angst was a clear standout with nearly 300,000 views, we had and a number of other high traffic stories yesterday. Please see attached for the Top 25. Great day! Yay!

Desktop: +46% Compared to same day a week ago

842K visits

1.36M views

Mobile: +76% Compared to same day a week

671K visits

906K views

App: +15% Compared to same day a week

535K visits

721K views

 TitleAuthorViewsShares
1Processed meat can cause cancer, red meat probably can: WHOGus Trompiz  284,161  19,516
2Big quake in Afghanistan and Pakistan kills over 200Krista Mahr and Jibran Ahmad  145,349    1,696
3No joke: Guatemalan comedian wins presidency in landslideAlexandra Alper  120,610    1,354
4U.S. Navy to send destroyer within 12 miles of Chinese islandsStaff    67,391    3,557
5Bail set at $1 million for Oklahoma woman charged with plowing into crowdLenzy Krehbiel-Burton    36,879       580

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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