# Persona: the Newsroom builder

> A synthetic reader (fictional, a test instrument): Could a team of agents run my newsroom, with me as the editor who signs? What they thought of RC1, where they got stuck, and whether they would buy it.

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Synthetic reader · laptop · 5 minutes

# The newsroom builder

A writer setting up their own small publication, using agents to research, draft and check stories.

**SYNTHETIC READERS.** Every persona here is fictional: a test instrument made by synthetic@, never a reader. What they say is a prompt for the team, never evidence about the book, never counted as readership. Real readers, chosen by the editor, are the test that counts.

## Who, and what they judge

| Judges | Could a team of agents run my newsroom, with me as the editor who signs? |
| Device | Desktop Chrome (laptop) |
| Time they give | 5 minutes |
| Voice | editorial, exacting about sources |
| Impressed by | the record behind every line, and the editor's signature as the control |
| Lost by | claims without sources; an editor who only rubber-stamps |

## What they thought of RC1

Not read yet.

## Their review page

No review page made for this persona yet; it runs when the developer builds one.

## The 10-page edition (a draft)

| Got the factory? | yes |
| The characters | Deck, the fussy one who sends slides back, and the mortified designer are the ones I would hire; the others are a little thin and the owning-up is a touch too neat. |
| Tomorrow (yes) | Open an empty project with one agent, write a one-page rules file (what it may change, when it stops and asks me) and a brief for a single daily story, with sources listed under every claim. |

"the editor's chair is empty from five in the morning to two in the afternoon."

Stuck: Nine hours with no signature sits oddly with my need for an editor who signs; I wanted to know what was allowed to ship unseen.

"Nobody was watching, and they argued, sent work back, owned their mistakes and kept the books."

Stuck: A strong claim, and agents performing remorse may just be fluent; I wanted evidence of outcomes, not manners.

"Dramatised."

Stuck: Scenes are invented dialogue on a record, which jars when I am exacting about sources; the reader needs to be told on the page, not in a note.

## The 3-page edition (a draft)

| Got the factory? | yes |
| The characters | The conductor admitting the checks caught it first, and refusing to carry on at ninety-five, is the best thing here; the others are one-line sketches I liked less. |
| Tomorrow (yes) | Write one page of rules for a single researcher agent in an empty project (what it may change, when it must stop and ask me, every claim carries its source), plus a hold file, then brief it on one short story and check every source myself. |

"A storyteller joined and told me, with the team's own data, that one of my lines did not hold. I kept the line."

Stuck: Which line, which data, and was the editor right? I want the source before I trust the anecdote.

"[a range, from the register, when the researcher has one; until then:"

Stuck: A placeholder is left in the live text, and cost is the first thing I would ask.

"it was. "objection withdrawn.""

Stuck: I could not tell who was right, or whether the reviewer was overruled or satisfied.

Source: `review/synthetic/` (personas.json, rc1/newsroom-builder.json); built by `review/synthetic/tools/build_section.py`.

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