Original reporting drove 71% of RuntimeWire reads in the last 30 days
The share excludes unclassified early articles and uses a strict test that treats any cited news publication as press-sourced.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Why it matters
A small newsroom gets its strongest returns by reaching primary sources first: 58% of classifiable stories produced 71% of recent classifiable reads.
Original reporting generated 71% of RuntimeWire's classifiable article reads over the last 30 days, showing that our strongest traffic comes from stories we source before established technology publications have supplied the reporting frame.
As of August 5th, 2026, those stories accounted for 90,396 of 126,920 classifiable reads during the period. They began with first-party material such as a founder's post on X, a company announcement, a regulatory filing or another direct source, without relying on prior reporting from a news publication.…
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