News Collector, newsletter copy through a short conversation

I’ve made a new prototype for the Design Research Playground. News Collector turns links, abstracts and existing blurbs into newsletter copy through a short editorial conversation.

Collecting news for a team newsletter often means chasing contributions and then rewriting them into a consistent voice. News Collector explores how an LLM can help contributors turn a source link, plus their reason for sharing it, into an agreed and ready-to-use blurb with minimal fuss. You share a link, introduce yourself, and an agent asks a couple of questions before drafting the story. If you’d rather keep AI out of it entirely, you can add stories manually too.

Can you add a story in less than two minutes?

Try News Collector here.

Written by

Dr Joseph Lindley

Joe leads Design Research Works and is a Senior Research Fellow at Lancaster University. He is passionate about the value of Design Research, in particular in applying that value to the challenges associated with emerging technologies, rapid societal change, and living sustainably. Probably best described as a 'generalist' his research practice usually involves material engagements with possible futures.