The 99 most engaging journalistic stories in 2024

Red Bull TV: the bet on extreme sport and adventure | TrendWatching’s 2025 trends report: Four forces reshaping our future

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December 20, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes

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  • The 99 most engaging journalistic stories in 2024

  • Red Bull TV: the bet on extreme sport and adventure

  • TrendWatching’s 2025 trends report: Four forces reshaping our future

The 99 most engaging journalistic stories in 2024

The web analytics company Chartbeat has published the list of the 99 journalistic stories that throughout 2024 have accumulated the most active reading time by users worldwide.

Politics and stories related to violence, scandals, or human connection are the protagonists of the list of journalistic stories that have accumulated the most reading time throughout 2024.

These were the top ten in the "Most Engaging Stories" ranking of 2024:

  1. CNN | The father of the Georgia school shooting suspect has been arrested and charged, authorities say

  2. BBC | What we know about the Trump attacker

  3. BBC | When will Donald Trump take office as president?

  4. THE NEW YORK TIMES | How an Instagram-Perfect Life in the Hamptons Ended in Tragedy

  5. CNN | She hit it off with the guy she met at the bar on vacation. Then he sent her an unexpected text message

  6. REUTERS | After assassination attempt, Trump and Biden seek calm, unity

  7. CNN | She arranged a date with a guy she met on a plane. When he didn't show, she unexpectedly met her future husband

  8. THE WASHINGTON POST | Biden makes stunning decision to pull out of 2024 race

  9. CNN | Takeaways from the ABC presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris

  10. THE INDEPENDENT | The Epstein List: Full list of names revealed in unsealed court records so far

Here is the complete ranking. 

To discover the 99 journalistic stories with the highest engagement among users, Chartbeat analyzed a total of 38 million pieces of content that accumulate 204,000 million minutes of engagement time, understood as active reading time.

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Red Bull TV: the bet on extreme sport and adventure

With the aim of promoting and strengthening its brand among audiences worldwide, the Austrian energy drink company Red Bull has made a decisive commitment for years to creating and publishing videos, films, live events and series on the internet dedicated to the world of extreme sports, adventure and exploration.

Red Bull has a website (Red Bull TV) and an app where it offers a vast variety of content showcasing stories of extraordinary achievements linked to risk, innovation or the pursuit of human limits.

A good example of this content, among many others, is the short film "Jaan Roos: Life on the Line", published this year, in which slackliner Jaan Roose "reflects on his life goals while planning a world record slackline attempt across the Strait of Messina", trying to cross the 3 kilometers that separate the Italian peninsula from the island of Sicily.

The wide range of content on Red Bull TV includes:

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TrendWatching’s 2025 trends report: Four forces reshaping our future

The latest TrendWatching report presents four transformative trends that will define business innovation in 2025. 

  • LOOPLIFE: AI-Powered Sustainability
    The report details how artificial intelligence is bridging the gap between eco-intentions and actions, making circular living practices more accessible and frictionless than ever before.

  • SENSESCAPING: The New Wellness Frontier
    TrendWatching explains how brands can create transformative experiences that lead to deeper self-knowledge.

  • WORTHWISE: Value Revolution
    With Gen Z's growing dissatisfaction with traditional work models (49% across five countries), the report examines emerging frameworks for creating and capturing value. 

  • HUMANIFESTO: Embracing Human Complexity
    The report explores how brands can navigate this trend by championing emotional authenticity and embracing the complexity of human experience.

The full report includes exclusive tools and additional trends. It is an essential reading for business leaders looking to stay ahead of consumer behavior shifts and technological advancement in 2025.

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