Digital Observatory

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About NewsTalk

As of 17 October 2024

NewsTalk is an aggregator of reader commentary on the majority of Australian news sites. NewsTalk also harvests Reddit comment threads linking Australian news stories. This provides good coverage of the Australian news landscape even when publishers don’t support on-site reader comments.

Figure 1: Number of stories by source

Figure 2: Number of comments by source and comment type

Figure 3: Proportion of comments by source and comment type