“Wikifying” News to Provide Stronger Context to Readers

Hersh is the Founder of Hindsight a media AI startup creating solutions to improve context in news

It is impossible for a journalist to create an article that provides enough context for all readers since every reader has a different understanding of a topic. On the other hand, the Wikipedia community does a fantastic job at hyperlinking and using their own content to provide readers the option to quickly get more context around topics they are interested in. How can we use these principles in the news to offer that same format of optional context and connect topics in stories with archived related content? Let’s talk about the role context plays in journalism today and how we can use different methods and technologies to enhance news content to satisfy the full curiosities of readers.