Academic insights reached millions of readers
The story that attracted the most interest from our audience in July was Lara Herrero from Griffith University’s piece on how the symptoms of the Delta variant appear to differ from traditional COVID symptoms. It has been read more than 1,882,000 times! 94% of the article’s readers were from outside Australia, showing there is a global appetite for evidence-based health information as the Delta strain surges in many countries.
Our second-most read article in July was Anthony Veal from the University of Technology Sydney’s piece on how the success of Iceland’s supposed ‘four-day workweek’ trial has been overstated, which garnered over 414,000 reads. Tony was subsequently interviewed by ABC Radio, Reuters Europe, Canadian radio and for our global podcast The Conversation Weekly.
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Expert-led content proved hugely popular online
The story that attracted the most interest from our audience in June was Maria O’Sullivan from Monash University’s piece on whether those without vaccine certificates could be banned from restaurants, shops and theatres. It has been read over 500,000 times! The article was cited as expert commentary by ABC News and Maria was interviewed on ABC Radio in Melbourne, Sydney and Western Australia. She said:
“I am so glad the piece was widely read. I also want to acknowledge the commissioning and editing work that Judith and Justin did - they are superb! Many thanks for all the wonderful contributions you make to public debate.”