Chris Snider

It’s officially been one year since I started tracking likes for the top newspapers on Facebook.

See the complete list of top TV stations on Facebook here.

The Contra Costa Times and Charleston Post and Courier were the biggest gainers in the latest look at the top newspapers on Facebook. July marked the 12th month I have been tracking this data (for most papers on the list). Next month, I will take a look at which papers had the greatest growth from [...]

I’ve added June numbers to my list of top newspapers on Facebook. The top 10 papers did not change, but there was some movement just outside the top 10. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser grew by 26.3% and jumped from No. 14 to No. 12. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch grew by 45.9% and jumped from No. 28 [...]

TV stations continue to put a lot of time and promotional dollars into driving fans to their Facebook pages. For proof, look at the increase in fans many stations saw from early April to late May in the list of top TV stations on Facebook. Fox 8 News in Cleveland grew by more than 100,000 [...]

Another school year has come and gone (unless you’re in summer school!). I started tracking the top college newspapers on Facebook in December 2010, which means I now have six months of data with these May numbers. The numbers are not overly impressive. Most of the schools I track have tens of thousands of students [...]

Note: See the full list of the top newspapers on Facebook here (including data from the past 10 months). Ninety-nine of the 100 biggest newspapers in the United States now have more than 1,000 likes on Facebook. Two papers reached the 1,000 milestone within the past month, the Albuquerque Journal and the The Record and [...]

WHO-HD in Des Moines began the month of April with 13,182 likes on Facebook. That’s a respectable number, but it wouldn’t even put the station in the top half of the list of top TV stations on Facebook. Twenty days later, the NBC affiliate is about to pass the 30,000 fan threshold (29,536 as I [...]

I am pleased to report that I am now tracking all college newspapers in the ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Pac 10 and SEC conferences. I found the final three missing Facebook pages today (Clemson Tiger, Gerogia Tech Technique and Daily Mississippian). The Central Michigan Daily Life was the biggest gainer during the [...]

The Iowa Caucuses are eight months away, and we’re still waiting to hear which GOP candidates will officially run for President. Which makes this an ideal time to start tracking potential candidates on Facebook and Twitter. Do any of the candidates show signs that they are beginning to test the waters by growing their social [...]