The reporter's research assistant, not the reporter.
LADLE triages the reading list, finds the primary source someone else was quoting, and cleans up the draft before your editor sees it. The reporting stays yours.
Find the actual study behind the headline.
Someone claimed a study said X. Ask LADLE (search on) to find the primary source with URL and specific page. Either it does or admits it can't — both are useful.
Which of these 20 sources actually matters for your story.
Paste headlines + first paragraphs of your reading list. Get a triage: read in full, skim, skip.
The editor's-eye pass before your editor sees it.
Paste the draft, ask for the kind of edit you'd otherwise pay for. Copy edit, developmental read, cut-for-length. Level of intervention up to you.
Journalism is being squeezed. Any tool that saves an hour is worth a look. $8/mo of your $20 subscription is earmarked into a meal fund on the road to a real partnership with the hunger-relief charity we select.
Questions.
No. Never publish a fact LADLE gave you without verifying against a primary source. Models still confabulate specific citations, dates, and quotes with high confidence.