A new metric to count in News: The follow
“If you hopped into a time machine that spat you out sometime between 1996 and now, you could almost pinpoint the year by the words used to describe an organization’s Web traffic. Hits? That would be...
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The unit of news we all already use
At Circa we “atomize” news or break down news into its “atomic elements.” At first this may sound like highfalutin nonsensical jargon. But the truth of the matter is that this is something every news...
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Real Talk: Pondering how headlines became uninformative
On Sept. 5 Techmeme made headlines. Literally. It was the first time that the popular aggregator began writing its own headlines instead of excerpting them. The change is a win for readers and for...
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Anonymous Source-aholics Anonymous — Reporters have to go cold turkey on...
MYSTERY MAN/ LESLIE BOURNE ON FLICKR (CC/CU) Two very popular people have been in the news lately: “Senior government official” and “Law enforcement source.” When you, the reader or viewer, see or...
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Circa 2013 Year in Review: The Year’s Top Followed News
We put a stake in the ground when we started Circa that the metric that would be one of our guiding principles is the “follow.” When a reader follows a storyline with Circa, it tells us they care...
View ArticleHow the follow feature changes the nature of planned obituaries
It’s a well known morbid fact of the news business that organizations have obituaries ready to publish for world figures. Any news organization worth its weight in salt has obituaries ready for...
View ArticleAvoiding spoilers
We learned a lesson with a recent wide breaking news alert we pushed. Nearly every major news organization, including New York Times, CNN, and ESPN pushed an alert when the NFC and AFC championship...
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We’re looking for a few good people
With our 2014 plans well under way, we’re ready to expand our team with some fantastic people. Last year we received accolades from both Apple and Google, calling us a Best App of 2013. We’ve been...
View ArticleGrowing pains
At 10:43am PST Sunday morning, we sent out breaking news push notifications, alerting our users to the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman. We sent those notifications to every installed copy of our mobile...
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At Circa We Write Stories, Not Summaries, Take Two
Circa News 1.0 launched nearly 18 months ago in October 2012, and since then we’ve learned more than we could have even imagined. But one thing that we’ve stayed true to is the idea that at Circa we...
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