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r/news

News reporting and discussion, with a substantial focus on the United States.

Weekly data through Oct 11, 2026

Compare activity against another subredditr/news on Reddit
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Posts and comments, every week since October 2023
269K−27.7%in 4 weeks, year over year
202420252026Peak 173K · Sep 14, 2025
Members31.6M+2.1% year over yearRead Oct 11, 2026
Posts and comments in 4 weeks269K−27.7% year over year4 weeks to Oct 11, 2026
Unique contributors per week26.7K−36.0% year over year4-week average to Sep 27, 2026
Weekly visitors4.21M−27.8% year over yearRead Oct 11, 2026

Three years, week by week

Weekly activity in r/news

Three years of weekly history. Download any chart as a PNG.

Posts and comments per week · 3 yearsPublic posts plus comments, r/news

Week ending Oct 11, 202664.7K−1.9% on the same week a year earlier

Posts and comments per week050K100K150K200KNov ’232024MarMayJulSepNov2025MarMayJulSepNov2026MarMayJulSepWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNGPeak 173K · Sep 14, 2025Low 46.3K · Jun 7, 2026Posts and comments per week0100K200K300K2024Jul2025Jul2026JulWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imagePNGPeak 173K · Sep 14, 2025Low 46.3K · Jun 7, 2026

Each point is a complete Monday–Sunday UTC week, dated by the Sunday it closed. The busiest week in the range is marked, and the quietest where it stands well apart.

Weekly unique contributors · 3 yearsUnique contributors to r/news

Week ending Sep 27, 202622K−43.5% on the same week a year earlier

Unique contributors per week020K40K60K80K2024AprJulOct2025AprJulOct2026AprJulWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNGPeak 58.6K · Sep 14, 2025Unique contributors per week050K100K2024Jul2025Jul2026JulWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imagePNGPeak 58.6K · Sep 14, 2025

Accounts that posted or commented in the week, each counted once. Updated monthly.

Members · 3 yearsMembers of r/news

Week ending Oct 11, 202631.6M+2.0% on the same week a year earlier

Members26M28M30M32M34M2024AprJulOct2025AprJulOct2026AprJulOctWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNGMembers26M28M30M32M34M2024Jul2025Jul2026JulWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imagePNG

The member count Reddit shows for the community, read once a week.

Posts and comments · 3 yearsPosts against comments, r/news

Week ending Oct 11, 2026Weekly posts663−65.4% on the same week a year earlierWeekly comments64.1K0.0% on the same week a year earlier

Posts per weekComments per week0500010K15K20K050K100K150K200K2024AprJulOct2025AprJulOct2026AprJulOctWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNGPosts per weekComments per week010K20K0100K200K2024Jul2025Jul2026JulWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imagePNG

Posts on the left scale, comments on the right. Each series is auto-scaled.

Weekly visitors · all readingsWeekly visitors, r/news

Read Oct 11, 20264.21M−27.8% on the same day a year earlier

Weekly visitors03M5M8M10MNov ’252026MarMayJulSepDay the figure was readDownload this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNGPeak 7.43M · Mar 28, 2026Weekly visitors05M10MNov ’252026MarMayJulSepDay the figure was readDownload this chart as a PNG imagePNGPeak 7.43M · Mar 28, 2026

Reddit’s weekly visitor figure for the community: unique visitors over seven days, as a 28-day rolling average. It is read about once a week, and each point is dated by the day it was read.

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Weekly contributions against Members · 3 yearsr/news
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At Oct 11, 2026
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ValueSince Oct 22, 2023Since the week beforeValueSince Oct 22, 2023Since the week before
r/news64.7K−48.4%−20.5% from Oct 431.6M+17.5%0.0% from Oct 4
Posts and comments per weekMembers050K100K150K200K28M30M32M34MNovAprSepFebJulDecMayOctWeek end or day readDownload this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNGPosts and comments per weekMembers050K100K150K200K28M30M32M34MJul ’24Apr ’25Jan ’26Oct ’26Week end or day readDownload this chart as a PNG imagePNG

Public posts plus comments in each complete Monday-to-Sunday week, UTC. Members are the member count Reddit shows for the community, one reading a week. Solid lines use the left scale and dashed lines the right. Each scale is auto-scaled.

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Activity pattern

Why r/news is classified as Steady

Oscylo reads the newest 52 weeks of posts, comments and unique contributors and gives each subreddit one of the patterns below. The figures behind the label are shown beside it.

Activity patternSteady

r/news shows no strong, consistent direction across contributions and contributors. Individual weeks can still vary.

How the label is read

Concentration2.03×
2.5×

The busiest four weeks against the quietest, with the yearly trend taken out. At 2.5× or more the year counts as concentrated: Seasonal if the busy weeks came at the same time in earlier years, Event-driven if they did not, and Variable when there is too little history to tell.

Posts and comments, yearly trend−6.4%/yr
−20%0+20%

To be considered Rising, a subreddit needs posts and comments up 20% or more over the year, with unique contributors also rising. Cooling is the same in reverse, and anything between is Steady. The trend is a line fitted through all 52 weeks, so a single busy week barely moves it.

Unique contributors, yearly trend−9.9%/yr
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Posts and comments per weekThe newest 52 weeks against the 52 before, r/news

Week ending Oct 11, 2026Newest 52 weeks64.7KThe 52 weeks before66K

Posts and comments per week050K100K150K200KNov ’252026MarMayJulSepWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNGPeak 142K · Mar 15, 2026Posts and comments per week0100K200K300KNov ’252026MarMayJulSepWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imagePNGPeak 142K · Mar 15, 2026

The 52 weeks before are drawn on the same calendar, so each week lines up with the matching week of the previous year.

Community anatomy

r/news statistics

Six measures of how the community posts and replies, averaged over the twelve weeks from Jul 6, 2026 to Sep 27, 2026. Each bar places r/news among every subreddit on Oscylo; the diamond marks the middle of its topic.

Comments per post

103 comments for each new post

LowerHigher

Higher than 91% of subreddits. News & politics middle: 74.4.

Threaded replies

71% of comments reply to another comment

LowerHigher

Higher than 94% of subreddits. News & politics middle: 63%.

Text posts

0.3% of new posts are text rather than links or media

LowerHigher

Higher than 1% of subreddits. News & politics middle: 0.3%.

Activity per contributor

2.4 posts and comments per unique contributor each week

LowerHigher

Higher than 62% of subreddits. News & politics middle: 2.5.

Most active 1%

8.5% of posts come from the busiest 1% of posting accounts

LowerHigher

Higher than 75% of subreddits. News & politics middle: 8.6%.

Participation

0.7 unique contributors in the latest week for every 1,000 members

LowerHigher

Higher than 9% of subreddits. News & politics middle: 21.

How contributions landPosts and comments by score
r/newsAverage subreddit
Share of posts and comments0%10%20%30%40%50%60%0–1: 51%51%0–12–3: 16%16%2–34–7: 10%10%4–78–15: 7.9%7.9%8–1516–31: 5.7%5.7%16–3132–127: 6%6%32–127128–511: 2.1%2.1%128–511512–2K: 0.7%0.7%512–2K2K+: 0.3%0.3%2K+Score (upvotes minus downvotes)Download this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNGShare of posts and comments0%10%20%30%40%50%60%0–1: 51%0-12–3: 16%2-34–7: 10%4-78–15: 7.9%8-1516–31: 5.7%16-3132–127: 6%32-127128–511: 2.1%128-511512–2K: 0.7%512-2K2K+: 0.3%2K+Score (upvotes minus downvotes)Download this chart as a PNG imagePNG

Score is upvotes minus downvotes a day or more after the post or comment was made, over the same twelve weeks. Outlined bars show the average mix across every subreddit on Oscylo.

Against its category

r/news beside every News & politics subreddit

Posts and comments in r/news are −27.7% year over year. The middle News & politics subreddit is at +61.0%.

Year-on-year changeEvery News & politics subreddit, posts and comments year over year
−75%−50%−25%0+25%+50%+100%+200%+400%Middle +61.0%r/worldnews: +28.1%r/nottheonion: −13.4%r/politics: −16.1%r/BlackPeopleofReddit: 57×r/USNEWS: +291.5%r/LeopardsAteMyFarm: +581.8%r/NewsThread: +61.0%r/worldnewsr/nottheonionr/politicsr/BlackPeopleofRedditr/USNEWSr/LeopardsAteMyFarmr/NewsThreadr/news −27.7%Posts and comments, year over yearDownload this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNG−75%−25%0+25%+100%+400%Middle +61.0%r/worldnews: +28.1%r/nottheonion: −13.4%r/politics: −16.1%r/BlackPeopleofReddit: 57×r/USNEWS: +291.5%r/LeopardsAteMyFarm: +581.8%r/NewsThread: +61.0%r/worldnewsr/nottheonionr/politicsr/BlackPeopleofRedditr/USNEWSr/news −27.7%Year over yearDownload this chart as a PNG imagePNG

Each subreddit's newest four weeks of posts and comments against the same four weeks a year earlier. The scale stretches near zero and compresses the extremes, and changes beyond +400% sit at the edge.

Data and sharing

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Weekly posts, comments, unique contributors and members for r/news, one row per week across the three years shown here.

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