Digiday+ Research deep dive: Are publishers cooling on Facebook?

Publishers’ relationships with the growing number of social media platforms have been somewhat fraught over the years — just look at publishers’ referral traffic from X (or lack thereof) or their uncertain navigation of Meta’s Threads. But publishers still have to work with these platforms, at least to some extent.

Digiday+ Research surveyed around 200 publisher professionals in 2021, 2022 and 2023 to find out how they are using different social media platforms and how that usage has changed over the last two years. In this first deep dive into the topic, we look at how publishers are using Facebook.

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Publishers’ workforce diversity reports released this summer show steady improvement in newsroom diversity

Gannett, Insider and The Washington Post have released their annual (or, in Gannett’s case, biannual) reports on the diversity of their workforces, revealing very little — if any — change in overall employee diversity year over year.

Within their newsrooms, both Insider and The Washington Post did improve the diversity of their editorial staffs, though white employees still made up 62% and 63% of those newsrooms, respectively, in the first half of 2023. 

Those companies join Condé Nast, Hearst, The New York Times, Vice Media Group and Vox Media, which released their workforce diversity reports earlier this year. See a running tracker of these reports here.

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