Citations:listicle

Noun: "an article based around a list"

 * 2010, Laura Penny, More Money Than Brains: Why School Sucks, College is Crap, & Idiots Think They're Right, McClelland & Stewart (2011), ISBN 9780771070495, page 43:
 * Movies are judged by their special effects budgets or box-office totals, humanities professorships are determined by how many articles the candidate has managed to publish, and the press is simply nutty for listicles and star ratings, which are ways of converting culture into easily telegraphed quanta.
 * 2014 January–February, Arika Okrent, “The listicle as literary form”, The University of Chicago Magazine, archived from the original on 1 February 2014:
 * [T]hese days, as a language columnist for online publications the Week and Mental Floss, I mostly write listicles. A listicle is an article in the form of a list. I'd like to think the ones I do count among the nobler examples of the genre—less "15 Best Butts in Hollywood," more "12 Mind-Blowing Number Systems from Other Languages." There's nothing about the form of the listicle itself that prevents it from dealing with highbrow or important subjects, and increasingly, news of all kinds is being delivered in this form ("11 Architectural Innovations that Made the Modern City Possible," "7 Supreme Court Cases that Could Change the Country," and so on).
 * 2014 January–February, Arika Okrent, “The listicle as literary form”, The University of Chicago Magazine, archived from the original on 1 February 2014:
 * [T]hese days, as a language columnist for online publications the Week and Mental Floss, I mostly write listicles. A listicle is an article in the form of a list. I'd like to think the ones I do count among the nobler examples of the genre—less "15 Best Butts in Hollywood," more "12 Mind-Blowing Number Systems from Other Languages." There's nothing about the form of the listicle itself that prevents it from dealing with highbrow or important subjects, and increasingly, news of all kinds is being delivered in this form ("11 Architectural Innovations that Made the Modern City Possible," "7 Supreme Court Cases that Could Change the Country," and so on).