Reporters list the best stories they didn't write in 2013

We've found your reading for the rest of the week and we wish we could say it's from us, but it's not. Businessweek published Wednesday their list of the stories they wished they wrote in 2013.

"The 2013 Jealousy List," includes 41 stories and one book. Businessweek staffers gave a brief description of the story and their reason for being jealous of the story.


Emily Biuso chose "Harper High School, Part One and Part Two,". The pieces tells the story of violence at Chicago's Harper High School, where 29 students have been shot.

"Three reporters spent five months inside the school, recording the lives of students and staff as they pay tribute to deceased friends, attend pep rallies, and explain why they try to stay inside as much as possible. It is a feat of immersive reporting," Bluso wrote.

Also on the list is "Planet Money Makes a T-Shirt" which followed the making of a T-shirt in a five-part series that appeared via NPR on the radio and online.

"It did the one thing I want most from any media I encounter: It made me smarter in the fastest, most enjoyable way possible. We must kill Planet Money and consume their bodies so as to absorb their power," Sam Grobart wrote in choosing the series.

And many, many more. We're jealous of the idea for "The Jealousy List." What was your must read or watch story of 2013?

H/T Bridget Shirvell

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