NN: Happy International Women's Day!

[View this email in your browser]( [NewsWhip]( Happy International Women's Day! Happy International Women's Day! We're celebrating the wonderful women in our lives and keeping an eye out for the best stories about women doing incredible things today. To start you off, here are the top five stories predicted to see the most engagement as of this morning: [For International Women’s Day, here are 7 of history’s greatest women-led protests]( - Washington Post [Olga's Kitchen offering free Snackers for International Women's Day]( - WXYZ [This Is What a Feminist Country Looks Like]( - New York Times [Gerda Taro: The First Woman War Photographer to Die in the Field]( - Magnum Photos [International Women's Day: Powerful stories from around the world]( CNN (Live Updates) Last year's top 10 featured Michelle Obama, 55 photos of girls going to school all over the world and Google's doodle took the third spot for most engaged webpage. Tactics for crisis comms As we teased in last week's newsletter, we attended the PR News conference in Miami about how to handle a crisis. Here are five things we learned. A variety of speakers detailed all things crisis, from how to spot a crisis, to the importance of a timely response. Here are five things we learned: 1. Identify what to look for, and where to look 2. If you decide to respond, time is of the essence 3. Have a crisis team with defined roles 4. Have a crisis plan in place before it hits 5. Define who's running your social media accounts For expansion on these points, you can read the [full blog here](. The top stories of the week Using our [NewsWhip Spike]( platform, we ranked the stories that drove the most Facebook engagements this week. There was one clear top story for this week, and that was the death of 90210 actor Luke Perry from a stroke at the age of 52. Some version of the story accounted for more than half of the top fifteen stories last week, three of which received over a million engagements, and TMZ's story was the most engaged of the year so far with more than 3.5 million. There was another celebrity death this week; Keith Flint, the lead singer of Prodigy also passed away aged 49, with stories in the BBC and The Guardian driving significant engagement. Two stories that broke the mold of this sad news that dominated the headlines were the return of the movie 'Sandlot' and HIV being cured in a second patient, both of which drove nearly a million engagements. For more of the top trends, [check out NewsWhip Spike](. Noted - Facebook is working on [combatting misinformation]( around vaccines - How teens interact with social media [may be evolving]( - About [40% of European companies]( that claim to use AI don't really use AI - Pinterest is [working on expanding]( its personalized shopping - Instagram has a [new format]( for brand ad content That's all from us this week. As ever, if you want to get in touch with us, you can do that [here](mailto:blog@newswhip.com). If someone forwarded you this email and you would like to subscribe, you can do that [here](. Have a wonderful weekend, Benedict and the NewsWhip team. [NewsWhip Spike]( [NewsWhip Analytics]( [Reports]( [Blog]( [Contact](mailto:blog@newswhip.com) Millions of stories, videos, and social posts are published each day, sparking billions of interactions. NewsWhip transforms this ocean of social data into actionable insights to inform your content strategy. NewsWhip products show you what audiences are engaging with in real time and what has performed best historically – in every vertical. Copyright © 2019 NewsWhip, All rights reserved. You're receiving this email because you opted in for the NewsWhip blog newsletter and updates. Our mailing address is: NewsWhip 47 Merrion SquareDublin, Ireland [Add us to your address book]( Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](.