The researchers' algorithm tries to detect the theme or topic of each story, and match it to other similar stories.
In other words, each story was the primary topic of more than half the articles published or broadcast that week.
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Next month, we will feature an exclusive story on an important, controversial topic never before covered on television.
Story 2 is a fresh view on a topic like Big Data and will be more interesting to a generalaudience- probably doing well on a platform like Forbes or Mashable.
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Along the way, Winchester pauses every third paragraph or so to delve into some topic that is not, at first glance, relevant to his story: Lloyd's of London, for instance, or the Reuters news agency, or Dutch colonial policy in Java, or the biological theories of Alfred Russel Wallace.
Reuters said that the news service stands by its story, and followed it up with another on the same topic on Aug. 26.
At its core, this story tackles the ever-ripe (and always-controversial) topic of women aging in Hollywood.
When I mentioned the topic at a dinner party in Paris, my French host launched into a story about the year he lived in Southern California.
The story drew ten of thousands of shares and sparked a lively conversation around the topic.
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Before this story broke, I was speaking to a group of women about this very topic -- the media narrative of women attacking other women's choices.
The topic of greatest attention in social media last week, by contrast, was a BBC Magazine story about a 13-year-old English kid who gave up his iPod for a week to try an original model of a Sony Walkman, according to Pew.
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