{"id":1263,"date":"2011-03-01T09:04:45","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T15:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrissniderdesign.com\/blog\/?p=1263"},"modified":"2011-03-01T09:04:45","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T15:04:45","slug":"top-newspapers-on-facebook-march-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrissniderdesign.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/01\/top-newspapers-on-facebook-march-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Top newspapers on Facebook &#8211; March 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Note:<\/strong> You can now find the <a href=\"http:\/\/chrissniderdesign.com\/blog\/resources\/top-newspapers-on-facebook\/\">full list of the top newspapers on Facebook here<\/a> (including data from the past 8 months).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The biggest papers keep getting bigger on Facebook, but we did see some nice jumps from some mid-sized papers during the month of February.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some notes before we look at the numbers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/#!\/thenewyorkdailynews\">New York Daily News<\/a> is the newest member of the 10,000 Like Club, with 10,451 likes. I am now tracking 20 papers with more than 10,000 likes.<\/li>\n<li>The last of the Top 100 newspapers is now on the list. Up until this month, I was tracking the Arizona Daily Star <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aznightbuzz\">AZNightBuzz page<\/a> because I could not find their main Facebook page. Well, I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ArizonaDailyStar\">found it this month<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of Arizona, check out the way azcentral has integrated a QR code into their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/azcentral\">Facebook page photo<\/a>.<!--more--><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The Top 10<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Here\u2019s the Top 10 newspapers on Facebook at the beginning of March  2011. No change from February 2011.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>New York Times \u2013 1,144,706<\/li>\n<li>Wall Street Journal \u2013 203,541<\/li>\n<li>Washington Post \u2013 126,970<\/li>\n<li>Denver Post \u2013 46,498<\/li>\n<li>USA Today \u2013 44,335<\/li>\n<li>Boston Globe \u2013 38,815<\/li>\n<li>Los Angles Times \u2013 38,792<\/li>\n<li>Chicago Tribune \u2013 28,300<\/li>\n<li>El Paso Times \u2013 27,118<\/li>\n<li>Arizona Republic \u2013 22,030<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Dropped out: none<\/p>\n<h2>Biggest gainers<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Here are the biggest gainers during the month of February by percentage of fans:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Wisconsin State Journal &#8211; 40.1%<\/li>\n<li>Salt Lake Tribune &#8211; 32.0%<\/li>\n<li>Intelligencer Journal\/Lancaster New Era &#8211; 30.2%<\/li>\n<li>Honolulu Star-Advertiser &#8211; 29.2%<\/li>\n<li>Daily Herald (Arlington Heights) &#8211; 27.9%<\/li>\n<li>Florida Times-Union &#8211; 24.3%<\/li>\n<li>St. Louis Post-Dispatch &#8211; 23.1%<\/li>\n<li>Arkansas Democrat-Gazette &#8211; 21.8%<\/li>\n<li>State (Columbia, S.C.) &#8211; 16.9%<\/li>\n<li>Los Angeles Times &#8211; 16.8%<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Note: The Arizona Daily Star will show as the biggest gainer <a href=\"http:\/\/chrissniderdesign.com\/blog\/resources\/top-newspapers-on-facebook\/\">on the chart<\/a>, but that is because I switched from tracking their Buzz page to their actual page (see notes above).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are the biggest gainers during the month of February by number of fans:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>New York Times &#8211; 54,390<\/li>\n<li>Washington Post &#8211; 18,273<\/li>\n<li>Wall Street Journal &#8211; 10,811<\/li>\n<li>Los Angeles Times &#8211; 5,583<\/li>\n<li>Denver Post &#8211; 4,300<\/li>\n<li>Boston Globe &#8211; 2,702<\/li>\n<li>USA Today &#8211; 2,505<\/li>\n<li>New York Post &#8211; 2,146<\/li>\n<li>St. Louis Post-Dispatch &#8211; 1,670<\/li>\n<li>Chicago Tribune &#8211; 1,571<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note: You can now find the full list of the top newspapers on Facebook here (including data from the past 8 months). 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