EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first in a three-part series looking at the top stories of 2021.
It’s been a busy year at Richland Source.
Through the year 2021, our newsroom produced 1,493 stories that published on our site. And that’s only stories that one of our journalists wrote.
In total, when you count stories, press releases, sports articles generated by Lede AI, obituaries, opinion pieces, reader-submitted content, history columns and everything in-between, we published a whopping 18,615 pieces of content in 2021.
That’s a whole lot of news.
Like most everyone around this time of year, we’ve been reflecting on the past year and how grateful we are for you, dear reader. Your support makes this work possible.
So we also wondered, of all that content, what were the stories that resonated with our readers the most? What stories earned the most clicks, or shares on Facebook? In short, what stories were the most popular?
Without further ado, and after much calculation, here are the top 10 stories penned by our team of journalists that were the most-read stories of 2021:
Do you have a favorite? Vote for what you think was the best story of 2021:
Thanks for coming on this journey with us. We’ll see you with more news in 2022.
