One time I saw someone reading one of my stories on the bus. Another day, the person cashing my check recognized my name. And once, one of my daughter’s classmates brought one of my stories in for current events. So I definitely have had at least three readers in the years before I learned to track them online. That I can verify anyway.
Now most of us — including me — get our news digitally and those of us in the media are hyper-curious about our audience and how we can serve them better. To be honest, we debate this a lot at Crosscut, partly because our readers seem to
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