What Has the Facebook Journalism Project Accomplished in Its First Six Months?

Facebook has met with 2,600 publishers globally since launching Facebook Journalism Project

Facebook introduced its Facebook Journalism Project in January, and Thursday, head of news partnerships Campbell Brown and vice president of product Fidji Simo provided an update of its progress at the six-month mark.

Brown and Simo said Facebook has met with 2,600 publishers globally since launching Facebook Journalism Project.

Facebook added call-to-action buttons to its Instant Articles interactive, media-rich, fast-loading mobile posts in April, and Brown and Simo said the feature has prompted more than 2 million email sign-ups, averaging more than 25,000 per day across all publishers that use Instant Articles.

They added that publishers using Instant Articles are now receiving a total of more than $1 million per day via Facebook Audience Network, and RPMs (revenue per thousand impressions) from Audience Network in Instant Articles are up more than 50 percent over the past six months.

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