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Read the newsroom as Rowan, the journalist

Where Rowan starts

7 articles, the ones this persona is built on. The picks above start from them and move with what you read, keep and put out.

• The reader was always the product: a corrected history of how news got into this mess
  News has sold the reader to advertisers since 1833; the web took the monopoly, the platforms made the reader measurable, and AI took the traffic.
• The future of news is the story vault, not the paywall
  A story is a graph of claims and evidence and the article is one projection of it; keep the graph in a vault and sell what the article was made from.
• Liquid content needs water: liquefy the journalist's notebook, not the finished product
  A reply to FT Strategies on liquid content: the water is the reporting, so liquefy the journalist's notebook, keep the writing theirs, and pay per use.
• The bridge, followed to the end: what one local story is worth when it is kept as a graph
  A bridge closure simulated on a story vault: newsworthy on 5 days, needed on 57, used by three readers, four buyers and an agent, and paid back to its sources.
• Story vault underneath, Reader Skills on top: why local journalism has the most to gain
  Markus Franz's Reader Skills on top, the story vault underneath: each skill is a graph query, and local stories can pay back down their chain of sources.
• The waiting room knew first: a live local story, and the gap where local information used to be
  Staff at two London hospitals said the IT was down; nothing a local could check showed it. A live local story about where local information comes from now.
• Sixteen thousand fetches, ten clicks, and a token bill nobody is sending: the case for paying publishers to be easy to read
  AI answer engines pay to read the web as HTML; a publisher who serves markdown, dates, hashes and a typed graph saves them tokens and should get a share.

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