The newsroom’s new internal tool displays a live leaderboard ranking that day’s tragedy coverage by “audience tear-through rate,” click depth, and average time-on-grief, refreshed every ninety seconds on a wall-mounted monitor above the assignment desk. Editors receive a push notification when a headline underperforms its projected sorrow curve.

Management describes the dashboard as “a neutral instrument for understanding what resonates,” and notes that the system does not, itself, decide what counts as a tragedy — it only decides, algorithmically, in real time, how long to keep it on the homepage.