by Benedict Nicholson | Sep 17, 2020 | Digital Journalism
As we head into election season, the top publishers are seeing increasing amounts of political content garner significant engagement. We looked back at the top publishers on Facebook in August 2020. Once again, we used our API to gather these rankings, which you can...
by Benedict Nicholson | Aug 20, 2020 | Digital Journalism
Engagements dropped slightly among the top publishers on Facebook in July compared to the previous month, with a new number one emerging. Once again, we used our API to gather these rankings, which you can read about on our developer hub. This analysis includes...
by Benedict Nicholson | Jul 29, 2020 | Digital Journalism
We looked back at the local publishers that are seeing significant engagement in two different countries, looking at both the United States and the United Kingdom. Our monthly English-language rankings often have a national bias, as publishers covering the big trends...
by Benedict Nicholson | Jul 23, 2020 | Digital Journalism
We looked back at the top publishers of June 2020, ranking them by their total engagement on Facebook. June saw a slight rise in engagement overall when compared to May, but some of the top publishers reached highs never seen before in our analyses. Once again, we...
by UMICH Center for Social Media Responsibility | Jul 21, 2020 | Digital Journalism
When financial markets are volatile, there is often a “flight to quality” in investment allocations. People move their money into gold or other investments that they perceive to be less risky. During the early days of the COVID-19 lockdown in the U.S., there was...
by Benedict Nicholson | Jul 17, 2020 | Digital Journalism
Last month, we published a piece examining the coverage of the Black Lives Matter protests that rose up in the U.S. in the wake of the killing of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis. This was not just a U.S. protest, however. Protests emerged worldwide in...
by Benedict Nicholson | Jun 26, 2020 | Digital Journalism
So far in our series of blogs that have looked beyond the English speaking world, we have looked at Germany and Italy. Today we will be looking at the most engaged content of the last year for Spain. Let’s get right into it. Engagement to Spanish content over...
by Benedict Nicholson | Jun 23, 2020 | Digital Journalism
We looked back at the top publishers on Facebook for the month of May, with some publishers still seeing record engagement. After two record breaking months in March and April, May seemed a comparative slowdown, though if you were to compare any of the numbers to any...
by Benedict Nicholson | Jun 19, 2020 | Digital Journalism
It’s been just over three weeks since the killing of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis sparked huge waves of Black Lives Matter protests across the US and around the world. On social media, these protests immediately pulled the nation’s attention away...
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