Hey hi, really sorry about the late response; been a little off the grid now.
The way I see it, News in Shorts and Tenreads are attempting to solve the problem of information overload, right? And there are two ways to go about it - either reduce the amount of content in each story you have to read, or reduce the number of stories. They take the former route and we take the latter. As far as curation is concerned, right now we are mostly concerned about how many outlets are writing about a particular subject, and how many people are sharing a particular article on that subject. We have a list of 200 odd publishers across a couple of dozen categories, that we handpicked and monitor everyday just to maintain the quality of content that comes through.
The way I see it, News in Shorts and Tenreads are attempting to solve the problem of information overload, right? And there are two ways to go about it - either reduce the amount of content in each story you have to read, or reduce the number of stories. They take the former route and we take the latter. As far as curation is concerned, right now we are mostly concerned about how many outlets are writing about a particular subject, and how many people are sharing a particular article on that subject. We have a list of 200 odd publishers across a couple of dozen categories, that we handpicked and monitor everyday just to maintain the quality of content that comes through.