{"id":3011,"date":"2018-10-25T10:20:39","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T17:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/?p=3011"},"modified":"2018-10-25T10:20:44","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T17:20:44","slug":"human-curation-of-apple-news-stops-it-being-total-crazy-land-9to5mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/2018\/10\/human-curation-of-apple-news-stops-it-being-total-crazy-land-9to5mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Human curation of Apple News stops it being &#8216;total crazy land&#8217; &#8211; 9to5Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"987\" height=\"494\" data-attachment-id=\"3013\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/2018\/10\/human-curation-of-apple-news-stops-it-being-total-crazy-land-9to5mac\/human-curation\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/human-curation.jpg?fit=1500%2C750&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1500,750\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"human-curation\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/human-curation.jpg?fit=987%2C494&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/human-curation.jpg?resize=987%2C494\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/human-curation.jpg?w=1500&amp;ssl=1 1500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/human-curation.jpg?resize=300%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/human-curation.jpg?resize=768%2C384&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/human-curation.jpg?resize=1024%2C512&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/human-curation.jpg?resize=938%2C469&amp;ssl=1 938w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/human-curation.jpg?resize=1309%2C655&amp;ssl=1 1309w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 987px) 100vw, 987px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Apple has for the first time allowed a reporter to cover the human curation process used to pick which news stories are included \u2013 and featured \u2013 in the Apple News app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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 \u2013 but Apple believes it is the safer approach \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe width=\"336\" height=\"280\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/25\/technology\/apple-news-humans-algorithms.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;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 \u2013 headed by former&nbsp;<em>NYT Magazine<\/em>&nbsp;executive editor Lauren Kern \u2013&nbsp;has to pick both the stories, and the source.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2018\/10\/25\/human-curation\/\">Human curation of Apple News stops it being &#8216;total crazy land&#8217; &#8211; 9to5Mac<\/a><\/em><\/p><p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has for the first time allowed a reporter to cover the human curation process used to pick which news stories are included \u2013 and featured \u2013 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maccconsulting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p834Wu-Mz","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3011"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3014,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011\/revisions\/3014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}