Fabio Venneri is founder of unfolded.news, a project that experiments with dynamic content architectures to move beyond the atomization of articles and rebuild hierarchy, context, and narrative continuity in news.
The web atomized the news into endless feeds of isolated articles, built for clicks, not for trust. In the process, it lost the hierarchy and context that once gave journalism its depth. unfolded.news is a thin editorial layer that introduces a dynamic content architecture: connecting articles into storylines, restoring hierarchy and differentiation, and helping readers make sense of the news.
I’ve always been kind of a content-organization nerd, writing lists, building indexes, organizing archives, connecting things. When I was 13, I built my first website to put together all the existing knowledge about Dragon Ball, in an encyclopedic effort that took a whole summer, and opened the way for me to start building things on the internet.
Some years later, as a Product Manager for digital products, I kept working on content organization in the media, education and publishing industry, and finally in the news industry I love. And what I’ve noticed again and again is how very little thought goes into developing digital products that can really make a difference in how they’re built, rather than what they contain: in fact, focus has always been on the content itself.
As a product person, I’ve been thinking about this for a long time, and I finally had the chance to build the solution myself: unfolded.news is a light editorial layer that redefines a news site’s content architecture, helping readers follow stories as they evolve over time, giving more space to context and making better use of the digital archive.
But let’s begin at the beginning.
