diff --git a/config.json b/config.json
index f1a50f5..c9e50bb 100644
--- a/config.json
+++ b/config.json
@@ -42,7 +42,8 @@
     "googleNews": "0 * * * *"
   },
   "contentBackfill": {
-    "concurrency": 0
+    "concurrency": 10,
+    "perSource": 50
   },
   "browser": {
     "maxConcurrentPages": 25
diff --git a/src/content.js b/src/content.js
index 71c04ad..794254a 100644
--- a/src/content.js
+++ b/src/content.js
@@ -31,20 +31,17 @@ const markContentPending = db.prepare(`
   SET content_status = NULL, content_error = NULL, content_attempted_at = ?
   WHERE id = ?
 `);
-const selectAllArticlesMissingContent = db.prepare(`
+const selectRoundRobinArticlesMissingContent = db.prepare(`
   SELECT id, url, title, description
-  FROM articles
-  WHERE (content IS NULL OR TRIM(content) = '')
-    AND (content_status IS NULL OR content_status = 'pending')
-  ORDER BY ingested_at DESC, id DESC
-`);
-const selectArticlesMissingContent = db.prepare(`
-  SELECT id, url, title, description
-  FROM articles
-  WHERE (content IS NULL OR TRIM(content) = '')
-    AND (content_status IS NULL OR content_status = 'pending')
-  ORDER BY ingested_at DESC, id DESC
-  LIMIT ?
+  FROM (
+    SELECT id, url, title, description, source,
+      ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY source ORDER BY ingested_at DESC, id DESC) AS rn
+    FROM articles
+    WHERE (content IS NULL OR TRIM(content) = '')
+      AND (content_status IS NULL OR content_status = 'pending')
+  )
+  WHERE rn <= ?
+  ORDER BY rn, source
 `);
 
 const loggedBlockedDomains = new Set();
@@ -188,7 +185,7 @@ async function fetchAndStoreContent(id, url, storedTitle, storedDescription) {
   }
 }
 
-async function backfillMissingContent(limit = 100, concurrency = 5) {
+async function backfillMissingContent(perSource = 50, concurrency = 5) {
   if (contentBackfillRunning) {
     return;
   }
@@ -196,9 +193,7 @@ async function backfillMissingContent(limit = 100, concurrency = 5) {
   contentBackfillRunning = true;
 
   try {
-    const rows = limit === -1
-      ? selectAllArticlesMissingContent.all()
-      : selectArticlesMissingContent.all(limit);
+    const rows = selectRoundRobinArticlesMissingContent.all(perSource);
 
     for (let i = 0; i < rows.length; i += concurrency) {
       const batch = rows.slice(i, i + concurrency);