Daily Mail tops list of Australia’s most ‘prolific’ metro journalists
The Daily Mail’s Caleb Taylor has topped the list of Australia’s most prolific journalists, according to data provided by real-time media monitoring company Streem.
Streem examined a year’s worth of data to find the most commonly occurring bylines on metropolitan or national publications.
The Daily Mail topped the list
All five top spots went to Daily Mail Australia reporters, with some churning out more than 1,000 stories in a year, or an average of 4.5 a workday.
Their dominance is unlikely to surprise media industry rivals, many of whom have accused the site of plagiarism since its Australian launch in 2014.
The top 25 contains ten Daily Mail reporters, six from News Corp and nine former Fairfax – now Nine – reporters. There were no representatives from Australia’s second and third biggest websites, 9news.com.au and ABC.
The list only counts individual bylines, meaning joint bylines weren’t captured.
International journalists and those deemed ‘bloggers’ were removed from the list, which contained data collected from March 1 2018 to February 25 2019.
The ‘stories per day’ measure is an estimate based on 240 work days (48 times five), although as Streem notes, many in the industry work fewer days than this.
Streem media and partnerships lead Conal Hanna, who helped compile the list, said sports reporters were particularly prevalent, along with business and ‘breaking news’ reporters.
“Australians love their sport, and certainly the people bringing it to them are working pretty hard, if this data is anything to go by,” he said.
After originally pulling the top 50 most frequently occurring bylines, some judgement calls were required, Hanna said, such as whether authors of ‘blog-type’ content should be included.
“Ultimately we decided that was a different category, which meant prolific writers like Australian Financial Review Street Talk scribe Sarah Thompson and the Herald Sun’s Andrew Bolt dropped off the list.”
I think you will find the reason the Daily Mail’s reporters are so ‘prolific’ is because they pretty much copy and paste their stories from every other news source…so congratulations Daily Mail, your hacks are the most prolific plagiarists in the business.
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Clicked on this story thinking there might be some industry analysis or understanding of what underpins the “prolific” writing of the Daily Mail – it’s a parasitic publication that basically requires journos to rip off their betters at legitimate papers. Shame Mumbrella didn’t bring any of that to the party.
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Pointless data, Daily Mail content not result of journalism, it’s control C, control V.
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Very interesting list. I would hazard a guess that there is a layer of even more prolific journalists working at suburban/regional and even trade level.
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Let me guess…. you were made redundant in the past 2 months?
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Subs’ error. You put the inverted commas around ‘prolific’, rather than ‘journalists’.
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Most definitely. As the editor a trade publication, I wrote and published 913 articles last calendar year (no byline though!)
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I guess it depends how you define journalism. Which I wouldn’t think includes plagiarising reputable news sites and writing articles based on instagram posts.
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Absolute rubbish. David Scutt at Business Insider is easily way ahead … 7,542 published articles in 3 years and 10 months
My own output is just behind that
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The Top 10 should all ask for pay rises STAT. You now have hard evidence of your output. God help all the journos that didn’t make the list. Your life is about to become hell. Oh, digital media, always a laugh a minute till you collapse at your desk. #typefaster
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Not at all, let me guess – you work for the Daily Mail?
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Absolutely – local news journalists are incredibly prolific.
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Ah yes, they must have been made redundant. Because journalists who still have jobs have no problem with Daily Mail hacks stealing their work?
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How many of the DailyMail stories are original stories and not blatant ripoffs of other journos work?
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Did you count journos from country newspapers or community newspapers? I’d reckon 3 stories a day would be a light workload for many of them!
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Does Caleb Taylor exist? Doesn’t seem to have any online profile other than Daily Mail “stories”. Possibly the nom de plume of a plagiarism algorithm??
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