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Metrics now allow a fairly exact degree of which stories attract the most readers and hold them for the longest time. By that standard,there will be one memoir best in engagement in a given year.
For 2015, that was The Atlantic’s “What ISIS Really Wants, or ” according to Chartbeat,which earlier this month published a first attempt to crunch numbers from its large client base to generate the equivalent of a box-office degree of the most popular movies.
In fact, Chartbeat generated a top 20 of most engaging stories. A piece from WIRED offering a scientific explanation of why people see that black and blue dress differently finished second. Three news accounts of the Paris massacre were in the top six. Read more
Source: poynter.org