Many newspapers maintain a list of the most viewed articles on their home page. This blog seeks to explore the phenomenon that drives a story to the top of a most viewed list. Of all the possible stories - what is it about these number one ranked stories that draws our attention to them?
In this very unscientific experiment we've plucked nine papers from across five nations to examine their number one ranked story. There are significant differences among the papers and their readership, but is there a pattern to top ranked stories?
As of October 22, 2010 at 8:30 pm EST the following papers had these articles as their number one ranked stories:
New York Times
Sydney Morning Herald
The Guardian
The Hill
The Globe and Mail
LA Times
The Irish Independent
The Telegraph
The Washington Post
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