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

Photo by Flickr user Wrote. 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 March 5-11, 2018.
Last week, our stories and translations attracted readers from 208 countries! The top 20 countries represented across all of Global Voices’ sites were:
1. United States
2. Brazil
3. Mexico
4. France
5. Japan
6. Spain
7. Colombia
8. United Kingdom
9. Philippines
10. Italy
11. Germany
12. Russia
13. Taiwan
14. Canada
15. Kazakhstan
16. India
17. Peru
18. Argentina
19. Indonesia
20. Bangladesh
But that's only a small slice of the diversity of our readership. Let's use the True Random Number Generator from Random.org and take a look at a few other countries on the list:
70. Czech Republic
152. Kosovo
159. Guyana
22. Madagascar
93. Palestine
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:
1. Detention of Businessman in Kazakhstan Prompts Fears Over Torture, Political Motivations
2. Lantern Festival Riddles Outwit and Enrage Chinese Censorship Authorities
3. Black In Tokyo: a Documentary About Life in Japan
4. Language Lessons: Kazakhstan Still Torn Between Tongues
5. How Greek Anti-Nationalist Satire Was Misunderstood as Hate Speech in Macedonian Media
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.