Apple has for the first time allowed a reporter to cover the human curation process used to pick which news stories are included – and featured – in the Apple News app.
The Cupertino company is unusual in having people, not algorithms, pick its top stories. That approach is highly controversial, giving around a dozen people control over what is seen by some 90 million people – but Apple believes it is the safer approach …
The New York Times has a lengthy piece on how Apple picks the five stories which top the app at any one time, exploring both the pros and cons of human curation. The team – headed by former NYT Magazine executive editor Lauren Kern – has to pick both the stories, and the source.
Source: Human curation of Apple News stops it being ‘total crazy land’ – 9to5Mac