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Future of local news report is a grim read

Stephen Waddington

Social media has replaced local news in communities across the UK. It is weakening community engagement and participation in local democracy. The collapse of local news is a crisis that has played out in plain sight over the past two decades. Local news has faced an assault on two fronts. Rumours are commonplace.

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Future of local news report is a grim read

Wadds Inc.

Social media has replaced local news in communities across the UK. It is weakening community engagement and participation in local democracy. The collapse of local news is a crisis that has played out in plain sight over the past two decades. Local news has faced an assault on two fronts. Rumours are commonplace.

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The top publishers on Facebook in Spain for 2023

NewsWhip

Every month, we look at the top publishers on Facebook around the US and the UK. As of 2023, Spain has 19.35M regular Facebook users. The top publishers on Facebook in 2023 in Spain In true Spanish fashion, the theme of fútbol, or soccer as we know it in the West, has been dominating the charts.

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Journalism and News Trends for PR Pros

Cision

The revenue model for journalism is at best in flux, and at worst, in chaos. Serious journalism from unexpected sources. Its UK office announced that it’s starting to cover more local news. Vice magazine, originally a local magazine in Montreal and best-known for local coverage and shock journalism, grew into Vice Media.

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The top publishers on Facebook in Mexico for 2023

NewsWhip

Every month we look at the top publishers on Facebook in both the US and UK. Though these locations are quite successful in terms of engagement, there are so many other countries where Facebook is a powerhouse of a platform. The controversial news had the public defending both sides of the argument, and earned over 257k engagements.

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Facebook Unfriends News, and it’s a Shame

Flack's Revenge

I had to smile when I read that Facebook’s reducing news content in the newsfeed. Mark Zuckerberg wrote on their blog “our time is better spent bringing people closer together… public content… is crowding out the personal moments that lead us to connect more with each other.” Look, I get it, Facebook is a business.

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The top US and UK publishers on Facebook in January 2023

NewsWhip

If you’re reading this you may be familiar with the regular series we do looking at the top publishers on Facebook every month, but starting with this blog we’re going to be changing it up a bit, isolating geographies more to get a fuller picture of regional trends around the world. million and 14.7 engagements respectively.