Australia's Top 20 news website rankings for February are out this morning. Big thanks to the 7.5 million Australians who read Guardian Australia last month 🙌

ABC News held No1 with 12.4m readers, with newscomau 2nd with 12.2m

GdnAus dropped -430k readers, but still held 6th spot 652k readers clear of SMH on 6.88m. Despite a small audience drop, Age overtook BBC to jump into Top 10. Keep in mind the month was 3 days (-10%) shorter as well!

Elsewhere in the Top20, The Australian jumped two spots in the table to 12th, overtaking NYTimes, while Forbes dropped 5 spots to 18th and SkyNewsOz was down two spots to 17th.

NIH weirdly reappears at 13th with a huge 810k readers added in Feb, but maybe the big news is The Nightly making their first ever appearance in the Top 20.

CourierMail are also back in Top20 for the first time since Oct last year, with DailyTele & Fox Sports dropping out

I might add that I am particularly pleased to see Guardian Australia's attention time (average minutes per person) up at 20mins here, which is the highest it's been since Oct/Nov last year, but would put us at 4th if you sorted the Top20 on that measure.

Link to January's Top20 rankings in the comments.

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#BREAKING NEWS: It's the Top 20 news website rankings in Australia for January! Massive thank you to the 7.96 MILLION Australians who read Guardian Australia last month 🙌👏

ABC News surged back to No1 with +731k readers to reach 12.48m, as newscomau dropped to No2 on 11.76m after losing -413k readers in the month.

Guardian Australia added +651k readers to hold 6th 💪 with 7.96m, 1.25m readers ahead of SMH at No7, who dropped -266k readers in January. And only 200k readers behind 7News in 5th! That's normally about a 2m audience gap.

DailyMail added +936k readers in January, on top of their +1.1m in December, to now be ranked No4, and up an astonishing 2m readers since they recorded 6.6m readers in November. That Nov measure had them 650k readers behind Guardian Australia and below us in the rankings at No7.

Huge months for SBS News and BBC, with both adding more than 800k users in January to take top10 spots at the expense of The Age and NY Times. All NewsCorp properties in the Top20 lost audience, with newscomau -413k, The Australian -279k, SkyNewsOz -169k, Herald Sun -222k and DailyTele -377k

Link to December rankings post in the comments

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#BREAKING NEWS: It's the Top 20 news website rankings in Australia for December! News•com•au stays No1 spot at 12.17m, ABC News second with 11.75m

Guardian Australia holds steady on audience & rank at 6th 💪 After taking 4th in Nov, SMH dropped -673k readers & 3 places to 7th. Daily Mail added 1.1m

Another month of swings across the Top20. DailyMail added 1.1m. BBC’s +632k in November wiped clean by -672k in December. NYTimes, despite a loss of -259k readers, jumps 3 spots to reach the top10 with larger losses for other publishers

Forbes drops -1m readers and 5 places to 15th, while Screenrant (?!) makes its first ever Top20 appearance. The Australian rises five spots to 12th.

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NPR was right to stop tweeting - but they shouldn't have added "until." Just step away. Webster Barnaby is exactly the type of person Twitter now exists to serve: Bigots who will pay for checkmarks. Step away.

At minimum, they should remove Twitter buttons and links from their websites. Stop driving people there.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/npr-wont-tweet-until-elon-musk-removes-false-label-from-account

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A bit about the @newsproduct mentor program, via a Mizzou lens: https://journalism.missouri.edu/2023/01/mentor-network-helps-damon-kiesow-bring-missouri-method-of-hands-on-learning-to-emerging-product-thinkers-in-journalism/

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The @newsproduct call for participation is now open for the annual summit on April 26,27,28:

https://newsproduct.org/summit/form

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When explaining ‘Product Management’ to people I often get this question:

“What is your favorite product?”

Current answer: “News Product is a set of methods and an ethic related to how we engage with the community. So my favorite ‘product’ is an organization capable of developing valuable and sustainable services to support community information needs. Product is about the big picture not just the puzzle pieces.”

#NewsProduct

“I think there is something magical that can happen when you take some of the expected nature of television or media, of what we expect is going to happen, and you throw the consumer, the community, the members, the subscribers into that. You give them the freedom to make other things happen.” -@patrickokeefe

▶️https://www.communitysignal.com/the-chief-community-officer-hype-machine/

#OnlineCommunities #NewsProduct #CommunityManagement #NewsMedia #CommunitySignal #CommunityManager #CMGR