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Articles tagged personalization (29)

Joshua BentonMay 28, 2015

The Apple Watch will expose how little publishers know about their readers

Apple’s new wearable may or may not be a big hit. But either way, it’s a harbinger of a new class of truly personal devices whose users will demand customized experiences. News companies aren’t ready to provide them.

Jack RileyMarch 5, 2015

The next stage in the battle for our attention: Our wrists

News companies have moved from print dollars to digital dimes to mobile pennies. Now, with the highly anticipated launch of the Apple Watch, the screens are getting even smaller. How are smart publishers thinking about the right way to serve users and maintain their attention on smartwatches?

Caroline O'DonovanJuly 8, 2014

Q&A: Tarleton Gillespie says algorithms may be new, but editorial calculations aren’t

“We’re always navigating information and culture by way of these mechanisms, and every mechanism has a built in notion of what it’s trying to accomplish.”

Some people want a lot more Winter Olympics; some people want no Winter Olympics at all

Pocket shows the power of data in picking stories

New York Times improves its recommendations engine

Jonathan StrayJuly 11, 2012

Are we stuck in filter bubbles? Here are five potential paths out

Algorithms can help, but more fundamentally, we need to figure out what we want a diverse pool of information to look like.

This Week in Review: Parliament hits Murdoch hard, and papers’ circulation is up (or down)

Plus: The debate over whether we’re in a tech bubble, Twitter’s news personalization efforts, and the rest of the week’s news in media and tech. Mark Coddington

Gina Masullo Chen: Next year, personalization platforms will bring us more choices, not fewer

News has always been about making choices among lots of information; technology just helps us make those choices more smartly. Gina Masullo Chen

Google News gets a new human touch, launching publisher-curated Editors’ Picks as a standing section

Human curation will now be a regular feature of Google’s news aggregator. Megan Garber

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