{"id":93511,"date":"2016-08-30T13:07:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T13:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=91596"},"modified":"2017-01-10T11:18:24","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T11:18:24","slug":"new-dawn-for-political-news-the-canary-edges-economist-and-private-eye-in-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/new-dawn-for-political-news-the-canary-edges-economist-and-private-eye-in-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"New dawn for political news? The Canary edges Economist and Private Eye in rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Online political news site the Canary experienced a wave of growth in July which saw it overtake the Economist and Private Eye in terms of total page views. The left-wing site, which bills itself as \u201ca counterpoint to mainstream controlled media\u2019\u2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.similarweb.com\/blog\/uk-media-publishers-july-2016\">rose 47 spots from 126th in June to 79th in July among the top UK publishers.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With the Labour leadership election looming on the 24<sup>th<\/sup> of September, media attention has become focussed on leadership rivals Jeremy Corbyn and Owen Smith. The Canary is definitively pro-Corbyn, so it makes sense that the website has increased traffic as the election date gets nearer. As there is a widely held belief amongst Corbyn supporters (as well as broader sections of society) that the mainstream media is unfairly biased against him, it also makes sense that a news source claiming to report the \u2018other\u2019 side of political events is seeing its popularity rise.<\/p>\n<p>The Canary\u2019s traffic increase could also be illustrative of a broader trend in the press-politics-public nexus. Whether left-wing or not, the public is increasingly aware that the news we receive from mainstream sources doesn\u2019t always paint the whole picture.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pwc.com\/gx\/en\/entertainment-media\/publications\/assets\/cross-border-news.pdf\">recent PwC report on cross border news outlets<\/a> found that 66% of respondents receive news from multiple sources originating from outside their home country. Engaging with such a broad selection of media sources may not mean that the information you receive is necessarily less biased, but it does give you a better perspective of world events. The same applies for outlets like the Canary: wholly driven by its own agenda but a necessary addition if you want to expand\u00a0your perspective on current affairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online political news site the Canary experienced a wave of growth in July which saw it overtake the Economist and Private Eye in terms of total page views. The left-wing site, which bills itself as &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":96797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3729,7271],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98509,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93511\/revisions\/98509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}