Data science company Altmetric and multidisciplinary science journal Nature will receive funding from the Google Digital News Innovation Fund to build a novel tool for measuring the impact of journalism.
Journalism has an impact: news stories can drive policy change, trigger a resignation or investigation, inspire social media debate or launch a field of research. While it is standard to gauge reader numbers using analytic tools, it is much more difficult to measure these types of ‘real-world’ impact.
To address this, Nature and Altmetric submitted a successful application to the Google Digital News Innovation fund, part of a major Google initiative in Europe to ‘help journalism thrive in the digital age’.
With the funding, Altmetric and Nature will build a ‘change the world impact tracker’ – an innovative digital platform to track and curate the real-world impact of journalistic articles. They aim to develop article badges and dashboards displaying impact information to readers, editors, publishers and funders. This helps to demonstrate the value of journalism to readers, and helps to make the case that journalism is worth investing in.
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