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Followers
50.5K
Account age
3 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$283 – $459 / sponsored post
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📊 Post engagement
13
Avg engagement / post
0%
Engagement vs followers
May 2023
On Bluesky since
🔥 Top post: "This kind of AI-driven price gouging gates essential informatio · 44 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
9.3 / week
Posts daily — consistently active for a campaign window.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
33×
Follows 1.5K back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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AI "will likely accelerate differences already underway. Commercial news organizations will use more automation. Public broadcasters will include more human oversight. And independent outlets will focus more on stories written and reported…
"The combination of the emotionality of bees as a poster image for pollinators and hurting the environment, the timing of these honeybee deaths that were news in and of themselves to most readers, and the narrative around the Trump [admin]…
"We found this heartening, in a time when many experts are writing eulogies for clickthrough from search engine results pages." www.niemanlab.org/2026/07/desp...
LOOKOUT's success is an example of a small, bootstrapped nonprofit newsroom building a community and relying on that community to help fuel its sustainability and reach new places. www.niemanlab.org/2026/07/lgbt...
“We love leaning into our roots and promoting small businesses that make delicious food with passion.” www.niemanlab.org/2026/07/taco...
Despite higher levels of bots and slop and lower levels of moderation, sports fans and journalists are still using Twitter.
No real replacement for it has emerged. www.niemanlab.org/2026/07/the-...
"For a long time I had just stopped finding space to make stories like that...but if you give up on the goal of making it to make money, you suddenly have a lot more space." www.niemanlab.org/2026/07/with...
For the last six months, local newsrooms have found creative ways to bring the World Cup to their communities through newsletters, library exhibits, videos, and interactive maps. www.niemanlab.org/2026/07/loca...
"What is the thing that only you can offer to your audience? That’s the thing to build your event around.” www.niemanlab.org/2026/07/want...
“The story that a German newspaper used AI to create a ‘Nazi search engine’ is just too good to ignore.” www.niemanlab.org/2026/07/one-...
In 2024, about 40% of Business Insider's content was scoops, exclusives, and other "original stories."
Today, that content makes up more than 80% of its site. www.niemanlab.org/2026/07/busi...
🦋 Handle & authenticity
✅ Domain-verified
@niemanlab.org
The handle is the domain niemanlab.org. On Bluesky a domain handle proves the owner controls that website — so this is verifiably the real niemanlab.org account, not an impersonator.
On Bluesky since
May 2023
An early adopter from the invite-only beta (before the Feb 2024 public launch) — an original, established account.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Bluesky in 2023 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 13 views per post.
📤Posts about 9.3× per week.
🏅Earned the 10K Followers for passing 10K followers.
🛡️ Audience credibility
58/100
Fair
Credibility score
81%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 81% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Low engagement (~0.0% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
We are the Nieman Journalism Lab, part of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard. We're trying to figure out the future of news.
🔗 https://www.niemanlab.org/
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