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Discover LudwigThe phrase "reader attention" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to the focus or interest of the audience reading a particular text or piece of writing. It is typically used when discussing how to grab and maintain the attention of readers. Here is an example: "The headline of your article should be attention-grabbing and relevant to your content in order to capture reader attention and entice them to continue reading."
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But what's to say that a mathematically mediated site — basing quality on reader attention — will elicit the truth?
And The Daily, with its relatively small staff of 150, has had to fight for reader attention as a start-up, albeit a well-financed start-up from a huge media conglomerate and well-entrenched competition.
It does seem a bit odd that a firm that has attracted so much reader attention and venture capital by doing things so differently is now deciding to use the money to look more like a big, legacy media organisation.
Publishers have lots of books, need to make a profit, and are battling declining reader attention spans, so they are only able to devote a certain amount of time to helping writers market their books anyway.
The site, perhaps most famous for its "curiosity gap" style headlines ("What happened next will make you cry…") has, to date, logged more than 1.5bn minutes of reader attention and attracts 50-60m visitors a month.
Michael Yon, an independent reporter who relies on contributions from Internet users to report from both areas of conflict, has already perceived a shift in both media and reader attention from Iraq to Afghanistan.
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Snow directs readers' attention to Saudi Arabia.
Will the content remain interesting enough to hold readers' attention?
"The trick is to catch readers' attention," he advises.
It takes a lot to capture and keep readers' attention.
Gawking is Knott's parasitic vision of readers' attention.
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