Curating the Curators: How AI and Humans Collaborate to Select and Distribute News
Here, Ted Skinner argues that in today’s hyper-speed media environment, AI supercharges news curation by monitoring sources in real time, classifying topics, gauging sentiment, and auto-summarizing at scale — but it can’t reliably grasp nuance. Because sarcasm, mixed tone, source credibility, and low-velocity yet high-impact stories are easy to misread, he advocates a human-in-the-loop workflow where algorithms triage the firehose and editors validate context, refine tags and summaries, and feed corrections back to the models.

