







Personalization is coming to journalism. The question is: who controls it?
For You, For Everyone - Graze Newsletter
How Graze built a "composable personalization" engine for the open social web — and why it matters right now.
For You, For Everyone - Graze Newsletter
How Graze built a "composable personalization" engine for the open social web — and why it matters right now.
Artificial Intelligence in the News: How AI Retools, Rationalizes, and Reshapes Journalism and the Public Arena
<p>Download the pdf here. Executive Summary Despite growing interest, the effects of AI on the news industry and our information environment — the public arena — remain poorly understood. Insufficient attention has also been paid to the implications of the news industry’s dependence on technology companies for AI. Drawing on 134 interviews with news workers […]</p>

Anonymity, Pseudonymity, and Deliberation: Why Not Everything Should Be Connected
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Anonymity, Pseudonymity, and Deliberation: Why Not Everything Should Be Connected
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AI Policy • States Newsroom
AI Policy States Newsroom is, above all, dedicated to journalism practiced by people. We believe in the power of having on-the-ground reporters covering our communities with the finesse and nuance that only human interaction can produce. We also recognize the power and potential of generative AI. We are open to the responsible and transparent use […]


Still Manufacturing Consent: An Interview with Noam Chomsky | Hacker News
The marking out of the symbiotic relationship between reliable information producers and journalists is also vital to understanding the media system. A reliable, centralised stream of new information content is the life blood of journalism organisations, with a strong emphasis on _reliable_ and _centralised_. This particular need that journalists have sees them often becoming dependent on state institutions and corporations at the expense of minority groups and labor. An example being the journalists 'on the beat' that used to hang out around the local courthouse because that's where the 'feeding trough' is. Or the reports so nicely formatted and condensed produced by the state departments such that journos merely have to copy-paste the information straight into their papers. Easy-peasy.
LLM-guided headline rewriting for clickability enhancement without...
Enhancing reader engagement while preserving informational fidelity is a central challenge in controllable text generation for news media. Optimizing news headlines for reader engagement is often...

Report: AI Use in Newspapers Is Widespread, Uneven… | Maryland Today
UMD Computer Scientists, Private Firms Examine News and Opinion Pages in U.S. Media

The future of news is happening where no one is looking
"In 2026, more news organizations will understand that people don’t always want an article. Sometimes they just want clarity."

Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management
My article critically examining Brennan Kenneth Brown’s Not-taking/PKM article. This was longer and more critical than intended.

Dropshipping journalism
<p>No one working at <i>Newsweek</i> can tell me why it still exists</p>

But anyway, papers since you asked: - DOI:10.1371 Digital Social Norm Enforcement: Online Firestorms in Social Media - Deliberation and Identity Rules: The Effect of Anonymity, Pseudonyms and Real-Name Requirements on the Cognitive Complexity of Online News Comments doi.org/10.1177/0032321719891385
back in 2012, @kissane.myatproto.social invited me to write an article for (the ostensibly now-defunct) Contents Magazine: doriantaylor.com/no-longer-no-sense-of-an-endi… i haven't looked at it in a while; it's kind of a clumsy article actually but (because?) it considers two tangentially-related concerns…
No Longer No Sense of an Ending
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