The Algorithm Is Not Your Editor
There is a question that every working journalist should ask at the start of every shift: who decided this was the story?
Not which editor approved it. Not which source tipped it. Who – or what – decided that this particular piece of information would reach the public, and that other pieces would not?
Increasingly, the answer is not a person. It is a recommendation engine.
The Invisible Editor
We have spent decades fighting overt censorship. State-controlled media, editorial interference by owners, legal threats designed to kill stories before publication – these are enemies we understand. We have names for them. We know how to resist.