The Secret Sauce Behind NPR One: An Editorially Responsible Algorithm

The Secret Sauce Behind NPR One: An Editorially Responsible Algorithm Enlarge this image Hugo Rojo/NPR Hugo Rojo/NPR Algorithms are a crucial part of how the news reaches you in a digital world. So here is what you can expect from NPR One's personalization algorithm: NPR One will always give you the lead story of the day and the important stories that our editors have chosen. With NPR One, we can have our personalization algorithm make sure you get both. Most of the work the NPR One personalization algorithm does is benign housekeeping such as making sure you are getting the most recent important stories, that you aren't hearing the same story twice, and that you get stories from your local station not some other one.