What Were Global Voices’ Readers up to Last Week? · Global Voices
L. Finch

“Read up!” Photo by Flickr user carnagenyc. CC BY-NC 2.0
At Global Voices, our community researches, writes, edits, and translates stories with a mission to support human rights and build bridges of understanding across countries, cultures, and languages.
We don't publish just to grab clicks or follow a news trend. We do, however, like to keep track of the ways in which our hard work has impact around the world.
To that end, one useful metric is how readers respond to our stories and translations. So let's take a look at who our readers were and what caught their attention during the week of February 5-11, 2018.
Last week, our stories and translations attracted readers from 195 countries! The top 20 countries represented across all of Global Voices’ sites were:
The top 20 countries for readership during the week of February 5-11, 2018. A modified version of a map by Roke. CC BY-SA 3.0
The English-language site is where the majority of original content is first published at Global Voices. The top five most-read stories of last week were:
Lingua is a project that translates Global Voices stories into languages other than English. There are about 30 active Lingua sites. Below is last week's most-read story or translation on each active language site.