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A big motivation for relaunching this blog is to knit together my work over the years so AI can find it. Writing up the projects page, I paused on the Breaking News entry. There's a part of that story I never published. Breaking News was a free consumer product inside NBC News. A few months before NBC shut us down, we discovered that companies would pay serious money to subscribe to it. It started
Read more →Factal has been covering the coronavirus outbreak since our first report on Dec. 30th, publishing thousands of verified updates spanning dozens of countries. We’re offering free access to our breaking news platform to both NGOs as well as fact-checkers working on the COVID-19 outbreak. World Central Kitchen is one of more than 30 non-profits relying on Factal’s coverage for no charge, a program we
Read more →The NPR podcast Radio Ambulante may be the most popular Spanish-language news podcast in the world, fueled in part by listening clubs in 19 countries. After doing some research, producers made a key discovery about how some listeners wereusing the podcast. “When we started doing audience surveys at Radio Ambulante, we discovered something interesting: 20% of our listeners were using our stories to
Read more →In our dangerous and disorienting world, facts save lives When BreakingNews.com and the Breaking News app were shut down at the end of 2016, we were inundated with email urging us to bring it back as a new company. There were many personal stories from Breaking News users who were caught in global tragedies — terror attacks, devastating wildfires and mass shootings — relying on our unique real-tim
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