JFK Reporting Tops Taylor Swift Dish
What engages the readers of New York magazine most?
The New York magazine article about my JFK research, “The Secrets of JFK Assassination Archive,” finished second on the Big Apple biweekly’s list of its most-read articles in 2023.
This list is measured by total collective minutes of audience engagement with each article.
In other words, it is empirically true that more New York readers were interested in the latest developments in the JFK assassination story than in a trailblazing report on Taylor Swift’s dining habits when passing through New York City, an admittedly amazing story. Swift, the magazine reports, comes in to various eateries in New York. She sits down and, then, here’s the newsy part, she eats. With friends. Incredible. Then she gets up and she leaves. Every time! Can you believe it? This Pulitzer Prize contender of a story finished sixth among the magazine’s best read articles of the year.)
Scott Sayare’s detailed and critically sympathetic story o…
