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Team:Braunschweig/Outreach/Coverage Report
From 2013.igem.org
How to succeed in Public Relations - Media Coverage Report
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As it comes to press relations, the coverage report is the most important instrument. It contains the clippings that were collected over a certain period of time, in our case half a year. Clippings are press cuttings, thus all publications that are related to the company or organization in question. Clippings are the most important instrument to measure the success of public relation activities. They mirror the publicity of an organization and thus its success and image. The coverage report usually starts with an overview chart of all press activities.
- The front page of our coverage report
| Date | July 7, 2013 |
| Medium | Neue Braunschweiger |
| Publication (print/online) | |
| Frequency of Publication | Twice per week |
| Coverage | 495,443 |
- An example of a print clipping in a local newspaper
Which figures does the report include and what do they tell us?
Creating a coverage report at least three different kinds of publications have to be taken into account: Print, online and social media. Of course also television and radio programs should be considered. In our case there were press reportings about our team in print, online and social media. That is why we will focus on these three channels in the following.
Print: To calculate the coverage of a newspaper article you need the daily print run. Coverage means how many people could have come into contact with your article. In 2010 the average number of readers of one newspaper was determined to be 2.8.Accordingly the coverage of a newspaper article equals the daily print run multiplied by 2.8.
Example: The daily print run of the newspaper are 20,641 copies. 20,461 copies x 2.8 (readers per copy) = 57,795 coverage.
| Date | June 27, 2013 |
| Medium | Peiner Allgemeine Zeitung |
| Publication (print/online) | |
| Frequency of Publication | Daily |
| Coverage | 57,795 |
- Clipping Peiner Allgemeine Zeitung
Online: The most important figure are the so called “Page Impressions” that tell about the number of users who accessed a single website. The figures are collected and summarized to a monthly figure.
Example: The average visits per month are 165,389.
| Date | May 23, 2013 |
| Medium | hausderwissenschaft.org |
| Publication (print/online) | online |
| Frequency of Publication | Daily |
| Page impressions | 165,389 |
- Clipping hausderwissenschaft.org
Example: Our fanpage had an average monthly reach of 3,826 single users. Reach in this case means the number of single users that saw any content related to the fanpage during one month.
To measure the success of Twitter activities a formula for coverage that factors in the number of tweets during one month and multiplies it with the number of followers can be used. As there is no automatic or provided tool to see twitter statistics, this is the easiest way to measure the reach.
Example: In August the Helmholtz Center of Infection Research (HZI) tweeted about us and recommended our Twitter account to their followers. Since the formula is based on the monthly outreach, the HZI’s 31 tweets and 383 followers in August have to be taken into account. Hence, the monthly reach was 11,873 single users.
| Date | August 16, 2013 |
| Medium | twitter.com/Helmholtz_HZI |
| Publication (print/online) | online |
| Frequency of Publication | Daily |
| Page impressions | 11,873 |
- Clipping Twitter HZI.org
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