As part of an ongoing series, Deborah Bonello talks about a career that has taken her from business journalism in London to video journalism in South America, and a current role producing video at the FT. What education and professional experience led to your current job? After I graduated from Bristol University in 1998 (I wrote for my student newspaper
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National UK newspapers had 1,665,202 followers of their Twitter accounts at the start of October – an increase of 193,266 on September 1st (when they had 1,471,936). The rate of growth has slowed, however. This is a monthly increase of 13.1%, compared with 17% from August 1 to September 1, and also from July 1 to August 1. What’s more,
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National UK newspaper accounts had 1,471,936 followers at the start of September, an increase of 213,892 or 17% on August 1 (when they had 1,258,044 followers).
You can see the September figures in the table.
The Guardian has more URLs bookmarked on Delicious than any other UK newspaper, as I first revealed here.
Visitors to UK newspaper sites look at an average of 2.5 pages a day, according to data from Alexa. But 62.8% of users look at just one page a day.
Following Malcolm Coles’ piece on how the Guardian, Times and FT are winning on Twitter, Sothisischristmas graphed the results:
Other people have tweeted (or retweeted) the Guardian’s URLs 328,288 times over the last 4 months – way more than any other UK newspaper.
The FT and Times have more followers on Twitter than the Telegraph and Mail – but they’re not tweeted about as often. The Telegraph is in second place: 120,731 tweets by other people have included a link to one if its URLs. The Daily Mail is 3rd with 95,851.
National newspapers have a total of 1,068,898 followers across all their Twitter accounts – with the Guardian, Times and FT the only three papers in the top 10 newspaper accounts. That’s according to a massive count of newspaper’s twitter accounts I’ve done. The Guardian’s the clear winner, as it’s place on the Twitter Suggested User List means that its GuardianTech account has 831,935 followers – 78% of the total …
Some news sites get a last updated time stamp in Google – and some don’t. It’s a bit of information next to the URL that says XX minutes ago.
Most newspaper websites are doing a bad design job in making their stories readable.
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