The Inkspot’s 2023 year in numbers

Inkspot Staff • Jan 8, 2024

Everyone has their New Year traditions–and the Inkspot staff is no different.

Every year, as first semester wraps, we like to dive into our analytics, looking back at all we accomplished at the end of each year and share some of our most notable achievements.

With that, we present to you the Inkspot’s 2023 Year in Numbers.

Since August 2023, we have:

published 117 stories on NCHSinkspot.com
had one story read over 1000 times – Towering talent, high expectations: 2023-24 Ironmen boys basketball roster ‘most talented team’ in nearly 3 decades [season preview]
had our stories read over 75,000 total times
welcomed 22k unique visitors to our website
livestreamed 13 events
had 1 livestream viewed over 6.7k times
published 30 videos on our YouTube channel
had 3 videos viewed over 2.2k times – Ironmen slam down 11 dunks vs. Bloomington Raiders (2.8k), Normal Community girls basketball defeat Peoria Richwoods Knights 69-59 in the Ironmen’s 2023-24 home opener (2.4) and On the Spot: Unwrapped – Students, staff share their top Spotify streams of 2023 (2.2k)
had 51,342 total views on YouTube
released our first podcast – Inside the Paint
had 3 stories recognized as exemplary student journalism– Tell me how to get to Sesame Street, Jasper’s Java serves coffee grounded in family and Local author pens LGBTQ+ teen novel: ‘Singlets and Secrets’
met 3 Standards of Student Journalism Digital Excellence–Best of School Newspapers Online, Audience Engagement and Site Excellence
hit a milestone of over 3.2k total social media followers/subscribers

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