About

The Yellow Journal is a daily ideological news analysis publication. Each brief applies six distinct analytical frameworks to the day’s most significant events, cutting through noise to isolate signal.

Why “Yellow Journal”?

Yellow journalism — sensationalism, provocation, the manufacturing of outrage — defined the media landscape of the 1890s. Today’s media has evolved past yellow journalism into something Baudrillard would recognize: pure simulation. News as spectacle, narrative as product, reality as optional.

The Yellow Journal reclaims the name with full self-awareness. We acknowledge what mainstream media denies: all journalism is ideological. The difference is that we name our frameworks explicitly.

The Process

1. Strategic Direction — PARETO 20% filter identifies the stories carrying 80% of signal
2. Parallel Analysis — Eight section specialists analyze top articles through all six frameworks
3. Interactive Quiz — Editor tests framework reasoning on 5 random subjects from the brief
4. Meta-Synthesis — Cross-section patterns, power moves, freedom calculus, and acceleration vectors
5. NLP Enrichment — Automated entity extraction, co-occurrence mapping, and trend detection

Automation

Briefs are generated with AI assistance (Claude + SonnetSwarm architecture), guided by human editorial judgment, and enriched with NLP analysis. The frameworks are human-designed; the application is AI-accelerated.