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# Why Reach journalists are being asked to write up to eight articles per day
- URL: https://werd.io/why-reach-journalists-are-being-asked-to-write-up-to/
- Published: 2024-10-10T13:02:27.000Z
- Updated: 2024-10-10T13:02:27.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: Media, Notable links, #Import 2025-06-11 21:47

\[[Charlotte Tobitt at Press Gazette](https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/reach-page-views/)\]

> "Paul Rowland wrote in an email to staff on 27 September that article volumes were being talked about “a lot in newsrooms at the moment” and blamed, in part, the volatility from previously huge traffic referrers like Google and Facebook."  
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> "A separate email, sent by Birmingham Live editor Graeme Brown last month, suggested journalists should file at least eight stories per day unless they were newsgathering outside of the office."

Referrals from Facebook are down from 50% of traffic to 5%, and every newsroom is seeing similar declines from both social and search. But this is an *insane* way to deal with it: asking every journalist to file eight stories a day is a way to drive quality through the floor and exacerbate a downward spiral.

You can't just keep doing what you're doing but more of it. This change requires a rethink of platform and more ownership over newsroom technology: it's time to actually innovate around what it means to publish on the web, and to, finally, move from "audience" to "community".

To be blunt: every newsroom publishing on the web that *doesn't* do this will go away.

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\[[Link](https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/reach-page-views/)\]