Smart journalism: personalizing, summarizing, and recommending financial economic news

FD Mediagroep (FDMG1 ) is the leading information provider in the financial economic domain in the Netherlands. FDMG operates “Het Financieele Dagblad” (FD) a daily finan- cial newspaper, similar to the Financial Times. In addition, FDMG operates the daily all-news radio station “Business News Radio” (BNR). As we have a wide variety of users with various backgrounds and interests, we believe that digital me- dia (both news articles and radio) should be personalized to match the interests of a particular customer. We are therefore working on personalization of FDMG’s digital media: • Personalized news: Recommendations and personalized summaries of news articles that match the reading pref- erences and interests of our readers • Personalized radio: A non-linear radio experience with ra- dio snippets that match the listener’s interests In both personalized news and personalized radio we are looking not only at introducing recommender systems but also at personalized ways to present the information using automated summarization (news) and audio segmentation (ra- dio) methods