r/news
Founded January 2008 · Public — anyone can post
The place for news articles about current events in the United States and the rest of the world. Discuss it all here.
Members
31,548,429
31.5M
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
23.2
from the last 100 posts, spanning 4.3 days
Comments per post
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no sample yet
Growth · 7d
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not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
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not enough history yet
Promo tolerance
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not assessed yet
Last post
Sep 18
sampled Sep 18
Distinct posters
50%
of the last 100 posts
Tracking since Sep 18 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.
Member growth
Tracking since Sep 18 — growth charts appear after a week of history.
Similar by content
Communities that discuss what r/news discusses.
A place for major news from around the world, excluding US-internal news.
Welcome To Usa News Today Sub Reddit please abide by all Reddit Rules and Guidelines of This Sub.
The best place to find and discuss all the latest UK news, from reputable news outlets.
News from the 200+ countries around the world without any US related news, which would otherwise swamp it due to the US-centric nature the bulk of the reddit audience. Many of the submissions will be collected from the best of the worldnews, science, technology and environment subreddits and re-submitted so they're easily viewed in one place.
See the full lists on similar subreddits.
r/news — frequently asked
How many members does r/news have?
r/news has 31,548,429 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 18. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.
Is r/news growing?
We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/news yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Sep 18; the chart fills in as history accumulates.
How active is r/news?
Around 23.2 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 4.3 days. Posting rate matters more than subscriber count when you're deciding where to spend your time — it determines how long your comment stays visible.
When was r/news created?
r/news was founded in January 2008 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.
Who posts in r/news?
Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 50% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Sep 18. A low share means a feed dominated by a handful of accounts (bots, mods, or one prolific poster) rather than a community.
Can I promote my product in r/news?
We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/news yet. Default to the safe approach: read the sidebar rules, contribute in threads where you gain nothing, and mention your product only when it is the honest answer to someone's question.
How do I monitor r/news for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/news into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.
Can my AI agent read r/news's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/news's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.
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