Internal meetings helped the staff at The Virginian-Pilot reach an agreement on what terms like exclusive, breaking, developing or enterprise mean when it comes to categorizing stories. Once they came to an agreement a glossary was published online to explain these terms to readers. As a bonus, the news organization said the labeling effort helped them better track performance on these stories, too.
Internal meetings helped the staff at The Virginian-Pilot reach an agreement on what terms like exclusive, breaking, developing or enterprise mean when it comes to categorizing stories. Once they came to an agreement a glossary was published online to explain these terms to readers. As a bonus, the news organization said the labeling effort helped them better track performance on these stories, too.

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