🔥 Here there! Thanks for Hunting this, Joe. I want to provide some details about what Current Status is and isn't, and how it works.
Current Status as a news aggregator, providing a consensus view of the top U.S. political news stories right now from a diverse cross-section of the news media ecosystem.
I originally built this to help me source the news for the daily WTF Just Happened Today update. But it seemed selfish to not share it with everybody.
This isn't replacing WTF Just Happened Today! Current Status is meant to augment your current media diet and give you a place to "check in" on the political news on your terms. It's time to get out of the endless Facebook and Twitter feeds and back to real news that's really important.
One of the reasons WTF Just Happened Today works is that it's a once a day update. You can tune out the news and focus on what matters without falling behind. But sometimes you just want to know WTF just happened right now. And that's where Current Status comes in.
There are three things that determine the Current Status:
- There is an editorially-responsible algorithm that considers the signals news editors send about a story's news value. If you're not familiar with news-value judgement, check out the "conditions for news" here.
- There's a human-in-the-loop curating the list and providing oversight to ensure that the Current Status is a fair and accurate representation of the day's essential political stories.
- Current Status is biased toward recent, highly-cited stories, with an emphasis on depth and accuracy.
The stars are a reflection of a story's current relative news value.
@matt_kiser Great work! WTFJHT has been brilliant in keeping me up to speed despite work and two kiddos. Really looking forward to Current Status setting a different tone for news throughout the day! 👏
@nickoneill Not yet! That's something I plan to do soon. I'll also make the list publicly available and would like to give the community an opportunity to provide feedback and suggest improvements over time. Sort of like a twitter news index ....
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I love the Chrome extension. Every time I open up a new tab I get an overview of the latest shock and awe coming out of Washington.
Pros:Easy-to-digest, up-to-date, concise, no advertisements.
Cons:The only downside is that more news orgs don't follow in Matt's footsteps.
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