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Ryan Restivo
@ryanrestivo.bsky.social
I built the YESEO app as a 2022-23 RJI Fellow.
10+ years writing in the Blue Ribbon College Basketball Yearbook. Journalist.
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YESEO launches three new paid features. Sign up to be one of 10 newsrooms that gets to test them for free.
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YESEO launches three new paid features
Sign up to be one of 10 newsrooms that gets to test them for free.
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November 2, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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2022-2023 RJI Fellow @ryanrestivo.bsky.social is adding three new paid features to his YESEO app that will "elevate the capabilities of YESEO" to help newsrooms understand their audience. Sign up to be one of 10 newsrooms that gets to test them for free. rjionline.org/news/yeseo-l...
YESEO launches three new paid features
Sign up to be one of 10 newsrooms that gets to test them for free.
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October 8, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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RJI Fellow Ryan Restivo, creator of the YESEO App, shares his latest work with the The Oglethorpe Echo where they tested new workflow ideas supported by the JournalismAI Innovation Challenge www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMGo...
JournalismAI Innovation Challenge Project Showcase - The Oglethorpe Echo
The JournalismAI Innovation Challenge, supported by the Google News Initiative, aims to fund projects/tools from news publishers to help fight misinformation and disinformation, experiment with new…
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September 26, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I'm biased but I would strongly recommend this to anyone thinking about it. 😁
Are you going to apply for an RJI Fellowship this year? Applications open Dec 1! Read more to ready your application: bit.ly/rjifellowships
September 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
🛫 Wheels up to NOLA!

I said this back in Atlanta in April running my first ever in-person training for the YESEO app. I made sure to buy the 3-year membership for ONA this year: glad to support the Online News Association and the entire team.
September 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The 1st event I spoke at after being an @innovationrji.bsky.social fellow was a virtual presentation to the Illinois News Broadcasters Association introducing the @yeseo.app

It’s the first time I hear a success story using it.

Something even more interesting happened at PMJA this week.
June 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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2021 RJI Fellow Ryan Restivo presented yeseoapp, 2024 RJI Fellows Zoli Csernatony and Dana Amihere presented their news game builder DiginThere and RJI Innovation editor Emily Lytle talked about Innovation in Focus on Audience Day at PMJA!
June 25, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Ready to take your headlines to the next level?

Join the Lenfest Audience Community on July 17 at 2 p.m. EDT for a discussion with YESEO app founder @ryanrestivo.bsky.social. Ryan will take us inside the patterns and quirks of headline writing & share insights learned from over two years of data.
What I learned analyzing 60,000 headlines
Join the Lenfest Audience Community on July 17 to discuss the patterns, language, and quirks of headline writing.
www.lenfestinstitute.org
June 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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In the US 🇺🇸, @amandacbright.bsky.social and @ryanrestivo.bsky.social explain how through a collaboration between the Oglethorpe Echo and YESEO, the Slack-based AI tool is enhancing newsroom efficiency and strengthening local journalism.

Learn more: www.journalismai.info/blog/7hyych4...
How The Oglethorpe Echo boosts newsroom with AI — JournalismAI
Through collaboration between the Oglethorpe Echo and YESEO, a Slack-based AI tool is enhancing newsroom efficiency and strengthening local journalism By Amanda Bright and Ryan Restivo
www.journalismai.info
June 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Looking forward to running this again very soon!

It's great to build a program where I can take what I've found in the data seeing the @yeseo.app help people and using that to help others think about their stories.

Thank you @journalists.org for the first run of this!

#SEOtips #AI #SEOtools
yeseo.app YESEO @yeseo.app · Jun 4
Thanks to everyone who came to the first run of "What I've Learned from 60,000+ Headlines" through @journalists.org yesterday!

There will be tweaks to this, but all in service of making a fun game where learnings can be shared.

#digitaljournalism #journalism #SEOtips #SEO #SEOtools #AI #YESEO
June 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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💡 What @ryanrestivo.bsky.social Has Learned About 60,000+ Headlines
🗓️ Tuesday, June 3
📍 Online

Building the AI-powered YESEO app over the past couple of years means data, data, data and insights about effective headlines. Learn with us tomorrow.
journalists.org/event/what-i...
What I've Learned About 60,000+ Headlines – ONA Events
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June 2, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Excited to be coming off a great trip to Georgia last week.

Held the first ever in-person training through ONA Atlanta. Visted UGA, The Oglethorpe Echo, the Red & Black and wrapped things up with a talk at Elevate: HBCU Media Conference in midtown Atlanta.

#SEO #NewsSEO #DigitalJournalism
April 24, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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🍑 Hey journos in ATL! Join ONA ATL’s 🆓 AI/SEO event with Ryan Restivo at @wsbtv2.bsky.social on Wednesday, April 16 next week. Come for YESEO training but stay for the networking & nibbles. See you there & RSVP now 🤖

www.eventbrite.com/e/improve-yo...
Improve Your Stories Discoverability with a FREE app — YESEO
Learn the free YESEO app with hands-on training. Since its launch in 2023, the app has improved SEO for over 14k stories.
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April 10, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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We are excited to see what this partnership accomplishes! Congrats @ryanrestivo.bsky.social

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YESEO partners with The Oglethorpe Echo on JournalismAI Innovation Challenge
Driving sustainable AI use in news-academic partnerships.
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December 10, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Now that we’re all on BlueSky here are a few things about me:

💡 I made the YESEO app as an RJI fellow, which was a 2024 Excellence in AI Innovation finalist at the Online Journalism Awards.

🏀 This year is the 10th edition I contributed to the Blue Ribbon College Basketball Yearbook 📚
November 12, 2024 at 8:58 PM
So we’re all on Bluesky now right?!
November 6, 2024 at 7:41 PM
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Join us Jan 31 to learn how to use the YESEO slack based app in your newsroom! 2022-23 RJI Fellow @ryanrestivo.bsky.social will demo the app and answer questions! bit.ly/3N5JME6
November 29, 2023 at 7:41 PM
Join me on Wednesday January 31, 2024 at 12:30pm ET/11:30am CT where I'll show you how you can use the free YESEO app in your newsroom on real stories and get insights, thanks to RJI!

Sign up at yeseo.app/RJI
Join us Jan 31 to learn how to use the YESEO slack based app in your newsroom! 2022-23 RJI Fellow @ryanrestivo.bsky.social will demo the app and answer questions! bit.ly/3N5JME6
November 29, 2023 at 10:14 PM
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"No organization is more worthy of support than this one. OpenNews is an island of sanity in an ocean of media crazy."

That's the first note we received on our donation page after we announced our end-of-year fundraising drive.

We are honored. Can you help, too?

opennews.networkforgood.com
Closing 2023 by strengthening our community & our resolve
We can't do this without supporters like you Connection. It’s the most important thing we can offer one another. As we celebrate our tenth year of coming together at SRCCON, we know firsthand wha...
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October 31, 2023 at 8:54 PM
Here is a bunch of what I shared out in our SRCCON session: all of the ideas the YESEO app is building, measuring and learning right now.

🤔 Interested in any of these?
💡 Have a different idea?
🙌 Let's Chat! 📅 yeseo.app/meeting
October 25, 2023 at 8:24 PM
Come to SRCCON in Minneapolis on October 17-18. I'm excited to be co-facilitating a session with
Nikita Roy on Wednesday!

We're both going to talk about our experiences and co-facilitate a session that helps everyone move forward on their Generative AI ideas!

2023.srccon.org/schedule/#_s...
SRCCON 2023 Schedule
A participant-led conference from OpenNews for journalists who want to transform their work, their organizations, and their communities.
https://2023.srccon.org/schedule/#_session-roadmap-ai-products…
October 11, 2023 at 1:15 AM
Thanks to Marist College for sharing my story as an alumni who worked on making this free app for Slack to help newsrooms all over through my RJI fellowship. 🦊

maristconnect.marist.edu/s/1516/GID2/...
October 3, 2023 at 11:58 AM