Editor’s desk: Another Times milestone as we continue to cover our region

Published 2:00 am Saturday, March 2, 2024

By Staff reports

Residents and community members packed a small dining room for a Feb. 22 community meeting at Forest Glen Senior Residence in Canyonville.

Nine million.

It’s a big number, and it’s the number of views on the Rogue Valley Times’ website since we launched a little more than a year ago.

In that time, we’ve engaged more than 1.4 million users, according to analytics compiled by EO Media Group’s Audience Engagement Editor Julia Moore, who works from the Times’ office in downtown Medford.

Recently, some of our top stories have dealt with controversies in our communities, from reporter Buffy Pollock’s story about turmoil at the Forest Glen Senior Residence in Canyonville to concessionaire troubles at Crater Lake National Park. Local sports stories also have generated heavy traffic, particularly on social media.

Here’s a closer look at Julia’s numbers:

 Top stories of the week

  • Standing room-only crowd converges on Forest Glen community meeting (3,580 views, 3,190 users)

  • US Park Service puts Crater Lake hospitality operator on notice, plans to end contract (2,830 views, 2,720 users)

  • Jackson County For All submits 34,945 petition signatures; meetings complaint rejected (2,690 views, 2,260 users)

  • Deputies to get soaked, ‘Sandlot’ star to sign autographs at Soak-A-Sheriff in Central Point (1,540 views, 1,460 users)

  • Forest Glen in Canyonville abruptly shuttered, elderly and disabled residents left in limbo (1,580 views, 1,280 users)

Top Facebook posts (ordered by total engagement)

  • Standing room-only crowd converges on Forest Glen community meeting (398 simple, 1,881 link clicks, 9.9% social engagement rate)

  • Deputies to get soaked, ‘Sandlot’ star to sign autographs at Soak-A-Sheriff in Central Point (191 simple, 1,348 link clicks, 6.4% social engagement rate)

  • Crater wrestling legacy deepens in 5A tourney (172 simple, 573 link clicks, 9.4% social engagement rate)

  • Comets look to burn bright on 5A final day (42 simple, 261 link clicks, 6.6% social engagement rate)

  • Rogue Valley BMX on track for course expansion (36 simple, 132 link clicks, 9.6% social engagement rate)

You can see the variety of subjects that we cover. It’s always been our goal to spread our coverage across a wide area, from local news to sports to entertainment to reports about the outdoors. If you are a subscriber, you already know this, and we thank you. If you haven’t subscribed to the Times, which can include digital-only or a full print edition/digital subscription, we invite you to sign up at http://rv-times.com/subscribe or by calling us at 800-781-3214.

— Troy Heie, editor

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