Liz Cookman

@liz_cookman · Istanbul, Turkey · joined 08 Nov 2009

Europe Correspondent @ObserverUK, also ✍🏻 for others | Ukraine, Turkey etc | British Journalism Award for Features Journalism ‘25 | Amnesty Gaby Rado award ‘23

13 947Followers

2 959Following

7 547Posts total

233.4KViews on collected posts

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Liz Cookman@liz_cookman27 Aug

The DRC Ebola outbreak is spreading ‘exponentially’. It’s the fastest growing ever and yet it hasn’t attracted much attention. It’s also becoming a gendered crisis. More women are catching it because they care for others, & maternal deaths - already very high - have DOUBLED. 655 views · 3 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Liz Cookman@liz_cookman27 Aug

🚨 In just over three months since the #Ebola outbreak was declared in #DRCongo, deaths among pregnant women have roughly doubled. Hear from @liz_cookman in The @Independent how the epidemic is adding potentially deadly complications to childbirth ⤵️ https://t.co/ldivkOU9Wp 2.6K views · 15 likes · 8 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Liz Cookman@liz_cookman20 Aug

@liz_cookman It’s the same with autism, they don’t like it when women get diagnosed because women will do something about it and research and change things. 2.2K views · 176 likes · 7 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Liz Cookman@liz_cookman20 Aug

@liz_cookman They used to think that boys grew out of ADHD in their early 20s when the reality was that they got married and their wives organised them and mitigated the effects. 3.5K views · 316 likes · 15 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Liz Cookman@liz_cookman20 Aug

@liz_cookman Exactly this! Political misogyny in play atm 1.8K views · 47 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Liz Cookman@liz_cookman20 Aug

ADHD was a considered a thing right up until they started mass diagnosing women, many of them over 35. Woman’s health has always been dismissed as ‘in their head’ - this documentary will age badly. 85.3K views · 4.5K likes · 567 reposts · 38 replies Open on X →

Liz Cookman@liz_cookman17 Aug

The media’s own lack of diversity can’t be ignored here. It is not a meritocracy, & Cambridge graduates, for 1, are vastly overrepresented. As a foreign correspondent, I can think of more peers who attended the same private school than who are black, or working class #jasonarday 3.7K views · 34 likes · 4 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Liz Cookman@liz_cookman16 Aug

Failed by the press Much of the media frenzy over Jason Arday was about race. The hounding of the Cambridge professor, who died on Friday, betrays a politics instantly suspicious of Black achievement, writes @Seunspeakss https://t.co/BtpCjzJpX4 69.4K views · 39 likes · 11 reposts · 44 replies Open on X →

Liz Cookman@liz_cookman30 Jul

Attacks on hospitals and health workers have doubled since 2021, surging in conflicts from Ukraine to Myanmar and Lebanon. Health is protected under international law, yet some say states now use these attacks as a weapon of war. Why? I looked into it for @guardian. (🔗👇) https

638 views · 3 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Liz Cookman@liz_cookman7 Jul 2023

Incredibly proud to say my story for @1843mag documenting Russia’s brutal siege of Mariupol’s Azovstal steel works is a finalist for this year’s Bayeax Calvados Award for War Correspondents. https://t.co/mWqLjmsjXR 63.6K views · 362 likes · 43 reposts · 13 replies Open on X →

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9 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views2 589this account1 033median for 10K–100K

Reach, %18.56%this account3.60%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.25%this account1.69%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	2 589	1 033	2.51×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	18.56%	3.60%	5.16×
Engagement rate	1.25%	1.69%	0.74×

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How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

63.6K7 Jul

63830 Jul

69.4K16 Aug

3.7K17 Aug

85.3K20 Aug

1.8K

3.5K

2.2K

2.6K27 Aug

655

Last 10 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.66%7 Jul

1.25%30 Jul

0.14%16 Aug

1.12%17 Aug

5.94%20 Aug

2.72%

9.42%

8.38%

0.89%27 Aug

0.61%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.69%.

What the audience does

Likes84.2%5 459 in total

Reposts10.2%662 in total

Replies1.6%105 in total

Bookmarks4.0%260 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

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