# Journalism-Guided Agentic In-Context Learning for News Stance Detection

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11049 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.11049/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 33 of its 109 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 15 Jul 2025.

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 33)

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- [Infusing Knowledge from Wikipedia to Enhance Stance Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.03839/) (2022)
- [Prompting and Fine-Tuning Open-Sourced Large Language Models for Stance Classification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2309.13734/) (2023)
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- [IndiVec: An Exploration of Leveraging Large Language Models for Media Bias Detection with Fine-Grained Bias Indicators](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2402.00345/) (2024)
- [Automated stance detection in complex topics and small languages: the challenging case of immigration in polarizing news media](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.13047/) (2023)
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## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Visual Framing for News Stance Detection via Image Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.00685/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

As online news consumption grows, personalized recommendation systems have become integral to digital journalism. However, these systems risk reinforcing filter bubbles and political polarization by failing to incorporate diverse perspectives. Stance detection -- identifying a text's position on a target -- can help mitigate this by enabling viewpoint-aware recommendations and data-driven analyses of media bias. Yet, existing stance detection research remains largely limited to short texts and high-resource languages. To address these gaps, we introduce textscK-News-Stance, the first Korean dataset for article-level stance detection, comprising 2,000 news articles with article-level and 21,650 segment-level stance annotations across 47 societal issues. We also propose textscJoA-ICL, a Journalism-guided Agentic In-Context Learning framework that employs a language model agent to predict the stances of key structural segments (e.g., leads, quotations), which are then aggregated to infer the overall article stance. Experiments showed that textscJoA-ICL outperforms existing stance detection methods, highlighting the benefits of segment-level agency in capturing the overall position of long-form news articles. Two case studies further demonstrate its broader utility in promoting viewpoint diversity in news recommendations and uncovering patterns of media bias.
