The Newsroom

Fight misinformation. Promote plurality online.

135 followers

Fight misinformation. Promote plurality online.

135 followers

Get a snapshot of current affairs around topics that you care about: just the facts, if you're in a rush. Deep dive if you want to: understand the historical context behind what you're reading, and understand differences and common ground among different news sources.

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Launch tags:Android•News•Artificial Intelligence

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The Newsroom

Maker

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

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4yr ago

The Newsroom

Maker

@saert Thank you very much!!

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4yr ago

The Newsroom

Maker

Hi @dynamicstutor , you can use PHUNT to create your account!

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4yr ago

ThriveDesk

@kevin @jenny_romano Congrats on the launch! 🎉

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4yr ago

The Newsroom

Maker

Thank you @shamsbd71 !

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4yr ago

Any cat news in the App? That's a must for Product Hunt guys... Just kidding - the App looks awesome 😻 Great job and good luck!

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4yr ago

The Newsroom

Maker

Thank you so much @cat_hats! Hahah no cat specific news on the App yet, but.. we're working on making the experience more personalised in future, so stay tuned for updates :)

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4yr ago

The Newsroom

Maker

@cat_hats Not covering cats just yet, but our inbox - feedback@thenewsroom.ai - is continuously checked, and always open for suggestions ;)

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4yr ago

The Newsroom

Maker

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.

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4yr ago

The Newsroom

Maker

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.

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4yr ago

The Newsroom

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Hello Everyone! I’m Lorenzo, data scientist @the_newsroom! I’ve been working on the development of frameworks to ensure plurality on The Newsroom App, meaning you can get different points of view on the same news event. 🔍 Among the features that you’ll get, promotion of plurality is my focus at the moment. Besides being a core value for us at The Newsroom, plurality is also a challenge from a data science perspective, as embedding real-time data and heterogeneous sources such as news publishers can be overwhelming. Anyone relate? I’m excited that in our field we are able to build models to improve reliable news sharing and news classification, on the basis of our pillar to fight disinformation and misinformation. A lot to develop ahead 👨🏻‍💻, but looking forward to hearing your feedback on our app!

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4yr ago

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.)

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4yr ago

The Newsroom

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Hi @anna_0x First of all, thank you so much for trying it out and for sharing your feedback. This is exactly the reason why we wanted to share our work with the PH community: to get your point of view, and improve on the basis of it to build something you'll actually use, and love using. Thank you very much! I'll go through each of the points you mentioned: - Dark Mode: in the works, stay tuned for that. - Filtering by category: also in the works. Right now we've started from 5 key events per day, and the objective is very much to test the use case and understand what users are interested in. We're a 4 people team and needed to prioritise ruthlessly - we deprioritised filtering capabilities for the initial launch but it's definitely a priority for the next release. - UI: I AGREE so much I need to capitalise it. It's been designed in-house and we know, we really know we must do a better job at it. We're bootstrapped and did our best without a UI/UX background, but it needs to undergo major improvements. We would love to get your views on it if you have specific advice on it - we'll definitely keep you in the loop as we iterate. Once again: thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing your point of view.

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4yr ago

Wow - just tried it and it looks really cool and different from other news Apps. Love that it shows how news is broken down left/center/right and the different perspectives. Was reading the one on NATO and seeing the different interpretations of what it means is sooooo interesting. I'll keep using it! Thanks for sharing and good luck!

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4yr ago

The Newsroom

Maker

Thank you so much for trying the product and sharing your feedback @callie_gladys! That's really precious to us 🙏 Really happy you're enjoying reading through the different perspectives!

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4yr ago

The Newsroom

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Thank you @callie_gladys for your feedback! We'd love to keep hearing your thoughts about it: everything we built so far has come from our users, and we'll keep it that way :)

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4yr ago

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