The Newsroom

Hello Product Hunt, I’m Jenny, Co-Founder and CEO of The Newsroom. First things first: a massive thank you to @kevin for hunting us! I’m thrilled to share with you the result of our work at The Newsroom over the past months, after pivots, user research, expert interviews, a handful of “how on earth do I do this”, and a healthy dose of “this is not what it should look like, is it?”. We’ve been building a new way to engage with the news through bite-sized news, historical context and diversity of thought, putting you in the driver’s seat to define how deep you want to dive. Use The Newsroom to: - Get a snapshot of the news, literally three bullet points. This will allow you to be in the know in your next conversation with friends. - Go deeper, getting a more detailed (but still digestible) summary of current events. This will allow you to share that one bit of information your friends haven’t heard about yet. - Explore different points of view, understanding how different publishers are talking about the same topic: what do they agree and disagree on? This will help you understand nuance, not get outraged when in contact with people who think differently from you. This will help you have a healthy conversation with that friend with whom you don’t really talk about anything beyond food and holidays because you always end up quarrelling. - Understand the historical context behind the news. This will allow you to do two things: always have an answer to “how did we even get here?”, and sound quite smart when discussing current affairs. As a news and debate lover, I’m very proud of the relentless focus we’ve had at The Newsroom to build something that breaks our bubbles and puts us in contact with points of view that are different from our own. After all, there’s no democracy without debate, and there’s no debate without diversity of opinions. Now, please get a cup of coffee (or tea, I won’t judge) and enjoy your first Morning Brief. I can’t wait to hear what you think about it. Jenny

Hi everyone! My name is Pedro and alongside @jenny_romano , I’m the Co-founder and Head of Product at The Newsroom. I’m really excited to share our journey and product with you today! Growing up, some of my fondest memories revolve around dinner tables 🍽 – family and friends would come together, discuss, disagree, but at the end of the day we would listen to each other and engage in healthy debates. Nowadays I feel that conversations get too polarised too quickly, as each one of us falls deeper into our ideological bubbles. At The Newsroom we’d love to bring back those dinner table conversations – helping people move out of their bubbles, understand the wider perspectives behind a topic, and find common ground. So what have I been doing at The Newsroom specifically? As Head of Product, half of my work has been building buggy code, and the other half has been fixing those annoying bugs 🐞 – just kidding! For the past months the biggest part of my work has been talking to people: users, technologists, journalists, psychologists, etc. Trying to understand how we can build an experience that will help create healthier news reading habits. The experience we’ve designed aims at giving you control over how you read the news, so you can choose whether to get just the facts (if you're short on time), or deep dive into a topic by exploring different perspectives and the historical background behind an event. We’ll start by giving you a “Morning Brief” ☕️ of a few key news events a day, and over time are working on scaling our approach to be able to service more topics, and better personalise our experience using AI. If, like me, you’d love to understand the wider context behind the news and explore different perspectives that exist on an event, I invite you to try out The Newsroom App. Our journey is still starting and we are eager to hear your thoughts! Reach out to us by submitting feedback through the App, or directly via email at pedro@thenewsroom.ai.

I was lucky to be one of the beta users of this app in the last weeks and I can safely say it has become one of my go-to apps. Not only is it a quick way to stay updated, it also provides me with the facts and the different perspectives on each topic. I'll be sharing this with everyone I know! Congratulations to the team and keep up the amazing work 🙌

I almost didn’t try it because of the unattractive (IMO) interface and needing to make yet another account, but I’m glad I did. The summaries are top-notch. No jargon, easy to understand, quick to read. Showing you relevant background (from Wikipedia) right next to the summary is such a huge time-saver when you encounter a new topic. Showing how much coverage is from left/center/right publications is also interesting and something I hadn’t considered much. I really hope you’ll succeed because I want the app to stick around! Staying up to date becomes harder and more time consuming each year that goes by. Requests ?makers • DARK MODE! (Essential) • Ability to filter news by category (e.g. “only show news about ‘Europe’”) • Better interface — it’s usable but really needs work. (Also, I think that how attractive the UI looks can make the difference between becoming a household and staying obscure.)

Hello All ! I’m Inês, Marketing and Comms @the_newsroom ! I believe this is the beginning of a place for debate and discourse, where news, analysis and opinion live together. A curated feed, for me, is everything! And the historical context? It’s saving my life when I bet on something with my friends!! #Trust-based ? - CHECK #Curated Feed ? - CHECK #NewsContext ? - CHECK #Engage with the community and take action? - That’s on us now ! For the past 2 months, I have been developing our online community, with the goal of making news more accessible, less confusing, and more inclusive. Also if you have ideas, send them over ! You can follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/TheNewsroom_AI | Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/thenew... | LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company... | & Join the discussion ;) ! I’m proud to be part of this project, thank you for that @jenny_romano & @pedrobh ! Ready? Can’t wait for your feedback.

I'm looking forward to trying The Newsroom out! I've been using other products that summarize blog posts and news, but you had to do all that work of choosing the media and the article yourself. Great job on making it easy for people to stay informed and as unbiased as possible!

I’m using it to stay up to speed with daily news while understanding the landscape it’s set in - my favorite function is the leaning tab and how others are reporting the same piece of content. Sunday good news is also refreshing nowadays 😅. I think it’s making me more aware of my own social bubble and bridging a gap with other world’s views other than my own on topics where it’s feasible. Congratulations on this fantastic launch ☺️