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By: ConsumerMojo

Interesting. Stories like these always engage viewers, readers, listeners and users on any platform.

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By: MaggyHR

Basically, all kinds of news. Mostly good news, but this covers a wide spectrum. Anything stand out most among these nine categories, in terms of most engagement?

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By: Eric Athas

In the study, Major Breaking News, Place Explainers and Crowd Pleasers performed best (in that order). But there weren’t any outlier categories.

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By: Ben Ilfeld

That was a great round-up. For news orgs this is some great direction, but for local brands with a social media presence this is GOLD.

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By: Caroline

This is helpful to have it broken down into categories like this. I’m wondering if we can break down international stories into components that particular US cities may be interested in as well… i.e....

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By: NPRKate

Caroline, that’s actually one of our challenges. Though we have exceptions, as a general rule, we don’t have the same level of success (as measured by like) with the NPR Facebook audience and...

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By: AndrewSpearin

One kind of posts that had the most engagement on our local community weekly’s FB page are photos from events with people tagged in them. Many festivals, concerts, fundraising events, etc, we covered...

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By: AndrewSpearin

To see what I mean, check here: https://www.facebook.com/BridgesYXE

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By: Curious City

Thanks for this excellent article! We’ve been finding out the same thing at WBEZ on an anecdotal level and the project we’ve started (curiouscity.wbez.org) is all about items 1) 2) and 3) on the chart....

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By: Eric Athas

Curious City came up in conversations when we were going through some of these, especially the Place Explainer category. Would love to talk about your project and what you’re seeing.

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By: Dave Bakker

Am I reading this right? You want to pick news stories by how many people ‘like’ and share the stories as opposed to what is important news? I’m saddened to hear this… 

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By: Caroline

At the Pulitzer Center, all of our stories are international… which means I think we tend to have lower clicks/likes/etc., although some types of stories and photos do tend to be shared more. It’s a...

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By: Lisa V. Gray

So what kind of posts did NOT get shared?

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By: DrKull

Interesting categorization. But does it go beyond simply: “man against man, man against nature, man against himself?” Methinks not. Still somewhat useful and certainly colorful. 

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By: Bob Britten

Great taxonomy – I’m excited to use this in my classes. A few questions: 1. Is publication (e.g., something cite-able) planned beyond the website? 2. You mention stories drawing likes, shares, and...

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By: Eric Athas

Great question, Lisa. We haven’t defined this in any official way, but I can share a few anecdotal observations.  1. Headlines matter. I can’t stress this enough. A shareable local story with a weak...

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By: Eric Athas

Hi Bob. 1. Nothing planned. 2. Crowd Pleasers and Feel-Good Smilers tend to get a lot of likes because of the positive reactions they get. Provocative Controversies and Place Explainers tend to get a...

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By: JD Adam

Well, it looks like Corporate advertising money is paying off!  I don’t know if I want to cry or laugh villainously?

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