We Spent 789 Million Minutes Reading the Most Engaging Stories of 2017. Here Are the Top 15

Chartbeat measured major media publishers throughout the year

Chartbeat, the social engagement measurement tool, tracked more than 39 million stories from media sites around the world.

People spent 788,962, 375 minutes engaging with the top 100 articles and essays across the entire spectrum of human emotion and experience. Chartbeat broke the stories into six categories: Indecency Exposed, Human Portraits, Year One, Terror Hits Home, Disaster Strikes and Super-Charged.

Here are the top 15 stories in order of engagement time from major media publishers:

1. My Family’s Slave — The Atlantic

An essay published in The Atlantic, this story was highly regarded for its honesty and for the dark details it reveals of the author’s family history.

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