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Audience analysis, translation, research, and more: How LIONs are using AI

How LION Publishers members like AfroLA use AI for audience analysis and translation.

Five new things I've learned from comparing AI and human-written headlines

Five key findings from comparing AI-generated headlines against human-written ones.

Celebrating 10 Years of Innovation at the MIC

Ryan Restivo was an AI Innovator in Residence at West Virginia University in March 2026.

How Ryan Restivo is building tools that fit inside newsroom workflows

One feature that's still in YESEO today came directly from an editor interview: when you paste a link, the app can break down whether the keyword you care about is actually in your headline or description, and how often it appears.

Ryan Restivo | Media Innovation Center | West Virginia University

Ryan Restivo joined the Media Innovation Center at West Virginia University as Innovator in Residence in the spring of 2026.

Data-Informed, Not Data-Driven: Building AI That Serves Reporters

National Press Foundation explores YESEO's mission to inform reporting when Ryan talks to their Widening the Pipeline fellowship cohort.

YESEO's Quest to Create a Tool to Inform Reporting, not Replace it.

National Press Foundation explores YESEO's mission to inform reporting when Ryan talks to their Widening the Pipeline fellowship cohort.

Recording: What I've Learned Analyzing 60,000+ Headlines

Ryan breaks down data for public media journalists on what they can learn from 60,000+ headlines created by the YESEO app for users.

The Oglethorpe Echo class recognized by Google News Initiative for solving problems in community journalism

YESEO's work with The Oglethorpe Echo helped it earn greater recognition.

Algorithms and authors: How generative AI is transforming news production

An academic paper cited Ryan Restivo's work.

Mobile Me & You technology and journalism conference prepares CLAS faculty and students to work with AI

Ryan Restivo discussed how AI tools like YESEO can help journalism faculty and students prepare for an AI-driven industry at the Mobile Me & You 2025 conference.

Vibe Coding Lab: Getting to your Next Big Idea

Ryan Restivo and Sebastián Auyanet presented live at the JournalismAI Festival in London on how you can use large language models to help think about your stories.

The Oglethorpe Echo: Empowering local news through AI efficiency

The JournalismAI Innovation Challenge, supported by the Google News Initiative

What publishers need to do about zero-click search

How YESEO analyzed 60,000 AI-generated headlines and decided to pivot to paid source tracking

YESEO Newsroom Partners Cohort Info Session

What I've Learned From 60,000+ Headlines

YESEO launches three new paid features

YESEO launches three paid features expanding beyond free SEO tools.

JournalismAI Innovation Challenge Project Showcase - The Oglethorpe Echo

Watch Dr. Amanda Bright and Ryan Restivo present what they worked on as partners.

Vibe Coding For Journalists: Build Real AI-Powered Tools Without Writing Code

Liam Andrew and Ryan Restivo team up to talk vibe coding for journalists at ONA25 in New Orleans.

What I've Learned from 60,000+ Headlines

Lenfest Community of Practice on 60,000+ headline analysis.

How The Oglethorpe Echo boosts newsroom with AI

How The Oglethorpe Echo uses YESEO to generate follow-up AI story ideas, with reporters finding both confirmations of their thoughts and novel pitches for new stories.

What I've Learned from 60,000+ Headlines

Ryan Restivo presents key findings from analyzing 60,000+ headlines at an Online News Association event.

The Latest: PBS sues Trump; NBC Nightly News enters new era; Fox News correspondent climbs Everest

Featured in NPC Journalism Institute's 'The Latest' newsletter spotlighting an AI-powered app that helps newsrooms craft thousands of SEO-friendly headlines — one of the top stories in this edition.

This AI-powered app has helped newsrooms craft thousands of SEO-friendly headlines

An AI-powered app helping newsrooms craft thousands of headlines.

Lunch table talk: Learn about YESEO

Ryan Restivo demonstrated YESEO at the 2025 Collaborative Journalism Summit's lunch table talk session, showing how the Slack app helps newsrooms improve headline SEO.

YESEO: The SEO Slack tool for newsrooms

YESEO presented as SEO Slack tool for newsrooms at HBCU conference.

Improve Your Stories Discoverability with a FREE app — YESEO

ONA Atlanta: A free app for improving story discoverability through SEO.

For Oglethorpe Echo, pioneering AI use means transparency

WUGA reports on how The Oglethorpe Echo pioneers transparent AI use in newsrooms, covering their YESEO partnership and ethical approach to AI-assisted journalism.

YESEO partners with The Oglethorpe Echo on JournalismAI Innovation Challenge

YESEO partners with Oglethorpe Echo on JournalismAI Challenge.

New Journalism Models: Being Mobile First | Panel with Brant Houston, Ryan Restivo, Anthony Adornato

Ryan Restivo participated in a Mobile Me & You 2024 panel discussion on new journalism models being mobile-first, alongside Brant Houston and Anthony Adornato.

Boost Your Visibility: How YESEO Enhances SEO for Journalists with Ryan Restivo

Ryan Restivo presented YESEO's SEO benefits for journalists at the Online Journalism Awards, highlighting how the Slack tool helps newsrooms boost content visibility.

Boost Your Visibility: How YESEO Enhances SEO for Journalists with Ryan Restivo

Ryan Restivo joins Yumi Wilson's 'AI in Journalism' podcast to discuss how the YESEO Slack app simplifies SEO for journalists, covering AI's role in newsrooms, data privacy, and YESEO's future.

Here's how 7 news audience directors are thinking about Google's AI Overviews

Ryan Restivo warns that while journalists provide vital, vetted information, the rise of competing search engine AI Overviews threatens information quality and imposes a severe, often overlooked environmental cost due to the massive computing power required.

When AI Goes Wrong: How to handle it and what to do

Nikita Roy and Ryan Restivo presented at SRCCON 2024 in Minneapolis, MN.

Streamlining Local News: How YESEO is Transforming Journalism Efficiency

33-minute YouTube interview on the Small Press, Big Ideas podcast where Ryan Restivo discusses how YESEO streamlines local news workflows and transforms journalism efficiency.

2024 Online Journalism Awards Excellence in AI Innovation finalist: YESEO

YESEO named 2024 Online Journalism Awards finalist for AI Innovation.

BBC, THE CITY and YESEO selected as award finalists for Excellence in AI Innovation

YESEO was a finalist in the inaugural award category of Excellence in AI Innovation.

Ryan Restivo on Creating and Building YESEO on the ONA AI Innovator Collaborative

YESEO named a finalist in the JournalismAI Innovation Challenge at the Online Journalism Awards, recognized for excellence in AI innovation for newsrooms.

YESEO app embraced by newsrooms looking to amp up SEO while keeping data safe

RJI reports YESEO has been adopted by over 400 newsroom workspaces in its first year, assisting with over 8,000 stories across the US, Canada, and the world in 11 languages.

NPA's 'Product Notes' newsletter covers YESEO as a free Slack app that helps newsrooms boost SEO with headline-generation AI.

Empowering Journalists with YESEO

Ryan Restivo as part of the Entrepreneurial Journalism Creators Program wrote where the future of YESEO could be.

Webinar: Intro. to YESEO

Ryan gave a webinar presentation in 2024 on YESEO's past and growth.

Navigating the SEO Landscape in Journalism: A Conversation with Ryan Restivo

Video podcast interview with Branislava Lovre where Ryan shares the origins and learnings from YESEO.

2023 at RJI: A look back

Ryan Restivo's work as an RJI fellow and beyond was recognized by the program at the University of Missouri.

YESEO app creator, Ryan Restivo, talks AI, SEO & News!

Ryan Restivo was intereviewed.

The Journey Building YESEO: the SEO Slack App for Newsrooms

Ryan Restivo gave a lightning talk to share what he has learned creating YESEO in the virtual conference.

Putting AI Where Reporters Actually Work, With Ryan Restivo

Putting AI where reporters actually work inside newsroom Slack.

Creating a roadmap for building your Generative AI products

Nikita Roy and Ryan Restivo presented at SRCCON 2023 in Minneapolis, MN.

Elevate Your Stories with YESEO

Ryan presented virtually to people at the University of Illinois' Mobile Me & You 2023 conference talk.

Media trailblazers join seventh cohort of Entrepreneurial Journalism Creators Program

Ryan Restivo joined a cohort of the Entrepreneurial Journalism Creators Program in the fall of 2023.

Alumnus Develops YESEO App for Slack

Ryan Restivo - a 2008 alum of Marist College - shared what he has learned with his alma mater.

The lens we need to view news: SEO tips for journalists

SEO tips for journalists from NPC Journalism Institute event.

The Latest: X to charge all users?; A correction from 1963; Broadcast reporter on panic attacks; SEO for journalists

Featured in NPC Journalism Institute's 'The Latest' newsletter as 'SEO for journalists' — a segment covering how the YESEO Slack app helps newsrooms optimize headlines with AI.

AI takes ONA23 by storm

RJI covers Ryan Restivo's YESEO presentation at ONA23, where AI became the dominant focus with news organizations exploring machine learning tools and AI-driven content strategies at the annual conference.

AI Tools Showcase (Midway Programming)

Ryan Restivo presented at ONA23 in Philadephia showcasing YESEO and what he has learned.

ONA23 Start-Up Alley: New ventures solving big challenges

YESEO was one of 10 organizations suppored by ONA's Start-Up Alley in 2023 in Philadelphia.

Is ChatGPT Ethical? A Look into the Moral Gray Area of AI in Media

Interview with Ryan Restivo in Success magazine

Elevate your headlines with YESEO: The SEO Slack tool for newsrooms

Presentation with Joe Amditis, the associate director of operations at the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University, to share the YESEO tool.

How I built YESEO to help newsrooms incorporate SEO best practices

How Ryan built a Slack-based SEO tool for newsrooms as an RJI Fellow to support more than English.

From concept to launch: App creator offers tips on product development

From concept to launch: tips on product development for app creators.

Twitter v. Threads?; Evan's bleak milestone; News product development tips; Affirmative action + journalists

Ryan Restivo featured in a Q&A in the National Press Club Journalism Institute Newsletter.

Ryan Restivo: Inside the Product Life Cycle of Building an AI-Powered SEO Tool

Podcast interview with Nikita Roy of Newsroom Robots on the creation and distribution of YESEO as a tool newsrooms can use.

This AI-Driven Slack Tool wants to help improve your newsrooms' SEO

YESEO helps newsrooms improve story discoverability with AI.

How the YESEO App Tested GPT Models for Headline Generation with Users

Recapping how YESEO tests and learns from its feedback directly from users for GenerativeAI in the Newsroom.

Product Notes: Get better at SEO with this free Slack app created by a NPA member 💻🔍

News Product Alliance highlights a free SEO Slack app created by NPA member Ryan Restivo — described as a 'Community Wisdom' feature that helps newsrooms improve their SEO.

Watch Ryan Restivo present the YESEO App

RJI introduces YESEO, an app built by fellow Ryan Restivo, for the first time in March 2023.

Introducing the YESEO app

Adding pre-publish options to YESEO SEO Slack tool.

How I preserve user privacy in the YESEO bot

How I preserve user privacy in the YESEO bot.

Adding pre-publish options to the SEO Slack tool

Building a Slack-based tool to improve SEO for newsrooms.

How a SEO tool can help all types of journalists do their work better

Ryan Restivo discusses the UX challenges of building an SEO Slack bot accessible to journalists with wildly varying levels of SEO knowledge, from beginners to experts.

How do you make a Slack bot that users of all levels can interact with and get insights from?

RJI covers Ryan's approach to building the YESEO Slack bot UX — inspired by a real editor's question about why their story lost a Google front-page spot, and comparing articles via Google Sheet to identify SEO gaps.

Why you should care about your news site's SEO

Press coverage of YESEO 73.

Making sense of your core web vitals

Press coverage of YESEO 74.

Building a Slack-based tool to improve SEO for your newsroom

RJI introduces 2022-23 Fellows: Ryan journey to building YESEO.

Introducing the 2022-2023 RJI Fellows

Ryan Restivo was a 2022-23 RJI fellow in a class of eight fellows.

How Newsday Launched Community News Alerts on Mobile. A Case Study in Product Thinking.

How Newsday launched a community news alert product with a strong mobile focus.

LI businesses got more than 60,000 PPP loans, federal data show

An investigation into the geographic distribution of PPP loans on Long Island.

Graduating Hoops Player Ryan Rhoomes Gets His Shot

A feature on graduating basketball player Ryan Rhoomes and his final games.

College basketball: Iona blows out FGCU men again

Game recap of Iona men's college basketball defeat of Florida Gulf Coast.