A new module for CCI NewsGate users provides managers with data on daily production performance.
Business analyst Thea Vibe Dohs Andersen (pictured on our homepage) pioneered the Newsroom Analytics product after working on newsroom transformation for a number of years. "Seeing data visually makes a difference to all of us," she says.
"Once we started working with the data from NewsGate, it was clear to us that this provides valuable information to our customers and it will inspire people to look for improvements in the newsroom. We believe it will be a vital tool for managers to be better informed and help newsrooms drive change as they transform into digital publishers."
CCI Newsroom Analytics compiles data from NewsGate and displays it visually so newsroom managers get reports on the performance. It will help them eliminate duplication, balance workloads and resources, speed production processes, and benchmark performance of products and units.
Reports can include the production cycle for pages, template usage, content sharing across channels, the stories produced, and production bottlenecks.
Once performance indicators are set, the software monitors production progress helping drive decisions checking, for example, the proportion of business section pages produced using templates.
Levels of reporting depend on the NewsGate version being used.
Right: Screenshots show opportunities for load sharing and template use