Below are some of the stats from yesterday’s online news exercise. The CfJ Newswire site was built, filled and managed entirely by second year undergraduates – who should be very proud of themselves. The team of 14 reported live between 8am and 5pm. Aside from producing some impressive rich content – which had to include international, national and local stories – they also used their social media skills to find and engage an audience from scratch. Particularly noteworthy are the ‘average time on page’ figures, which show that the audience engagement was impressively high.

Use the zoom buttons at the top of the pdf to make it more readable. [Just noticed these aren’t showing in all browsers. Am working on it]