As part of my coursework in the PhD in Media and Design program, I undertook an internship working with Dr. Damian Trilling at the University of Amsterdam, contributing to the NEWSFLOWS project. Given the context of increased use of both algorithmically driven news personalization and social media platforms as a space for news discovery, the NEWSFLOWS project explores how news information spreads. As part of my internship, I have been working on a subsection of this project that examines the interplay of manual news sharing and algorithmic news recommendation. With my programming background, I have my work on the project has focused on the redevelopment of an online recommendation system previously used by NEWSFLOWS researchers. This system, dubbed 3bij3, was developed as an open source research tool, and can measure the effects of news recommendation system use on news consumers