by NewsWhip | Nov 4, 2014 | Digital Journalism
Experts from the Huffington Post, Flipboard and MIT Tech Review discuss the future of media at Web Summit 2014. NewsWhip are at the Web Summit in Dublin this week. We’ll be posting reports from media panels and experts on our blog over the coming days. Mobile, native...
by NewsWhip | Oct 30, 2014 | Digital Journalism
We look at five ways that different news sites are using social media to tell, explain, and promote stories on Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks. Video is eating the media world. We see it in the social data that we constantly collect in our monthly...
by NewsWhip | Oct 22, 2014 | Digital Journalism
 We look at the importance of ‘selling’ your stories when posting to social media, in order to boost sharing. In our guide to making a story go viral from last week, we touched on the idea of the ‘social lede’ as an important factor in...
by NewsWhip | Oct 16, 2014 | Digital Journalism
Earlier this week, NewsWhip’s Social Media Editor Liam Corcoran spoke on the topic of attracting and keeping new readers through social media at the International Newsroom Summit in Amsterdam. The key points of the talk are outlined here. To many, ‘going...
by NewsWhip | Oct 9, 2014 | Interviews
Viral site PlayBuzz were the talking point of our September Facebook rankings. We talked to their Chief Content Officer about their rise to the second most shared site in just a few short months. One of the biggest surprises of September’s Facebook rankings is...
by NewsWhip | Oct 8, 2014 | Other
Who’s getting tweeted? We rank the biggest Twitter publishers of last month, and analyse where the tweets came from. Following on from the biggest Facebook publishers of last month, we turn our attention to the sites getting the most traction on Twitter since...
by NewsWhip | Oct 7, 2014 | Other
In our latest Facebook rankings, we look at the performance of the biggest sites and stories on Facebook for September 2014, and analyse the most impressive new performers. We’ve consulted Spike’s extensive social database, and have come up with new...
by NewsWhip | Sep 17, 2014 | Other
We look at social engagement growth patterns from sites outside the top 25 publishers. Every month, we see some new names on our Facebook publishers charts. August saw the arrival of IFLScience, amongst a number of political sites. However, just becase we only...
by NewsWhip | Sep 11, 2014 | Other
A big month on Facebook doesn’t always translate to more sharing activity on Twitter, as our latest Twitter rankings show. In July, we saw huge excitement on Twitter over the World Cup, and a new record for most tweets of an individual story, on a piece about a...
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