The year news gets personalized (seriously)

The year news gets personalized (seriously)

Every year since approximately the invention of the iPad, someone predicts that this — finally! — will be the year of personalization. And usually that means: “We’ll use cookies to figure out you like politics, and put more politics articles at the top of your feed.” For the last decade, our industry has viewed personalization as a sorting problem, shuffling our cards to match a user’s interests. But the journalism itself? Well, that hasn’t real…