Check out the updated list of who you should follow in 2023!
41% of TikTok’s users are between 16-24 years old. That is a lot of young eyeballs and therefore interesting to news organisations that are seeing their readers getting older and older. Hoping to snag that kind of attention, a number of them have launched their own accounts with varying degrees of success.
The only real downside is that their embed code seems to hate WordPress. Or WordPress hates it? Hopefully that will change in the coming months. At the moment the best we can do is link to the videos. Apologies.
Want to see know what the best channels are? I have watched hours of Tik Tok videos, so you don’t have to. What do I mean by best? The accounts that managed to blend the extremely dweeby with timely news stories. Here are the top ten journalism accounts to follow in 2020.
10. NowThisPolitics
Best Video: We did not say it , but we are also not NOT saying it, you know?
9. Vogue Italia
Best Video: La sfilata di Noir Kei Ninomiya a Parigi
8. WBUR Boston NPR Station
Best Video: “Art performance”
7. MSNBC
Best Video: What does having “access” to something really mean? 🤔
6. USA Today
Best Video: When the sports reporter finally gets their time to shine
5. BBC Radio 1
Best Video: What goes on inside your head @yungblud?
4. NBC News
Best Video: Happy 3rd #birthday to 1,200 lb. toddler Fiona the #hippo at the #cincinnati zoo
3. Dallas Morning News
Best Video: Meet our Audience Team
2. ESPN
Best Video: He makes this look SOOO easy 😳
1. The Washington Post
Best Video: News is all around us
BONUS
BBC News does not have an account yet, and I can’t understand why if they’ve got Emma Bentley on their team already.
Best Video: When 2 broadcasters meet
See also: TikTok’s mysterious algorithm, Journalism’s rising TikTok star and Why to TikTok (and why not to)!