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Urgent in the World reports breaking world news. Every story published here is checked against its original sources before it goes out.

How a story gets published

Collection. Roughly 20 newsroom feeds are read continuously — BBC, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, NPR, France 24, Deutsche Welle, SCMP, The Hindu, Japan Times, Sky News and others.
Clustering. Articles describing the same event are grouped, and articles about a different event are removed from the group before anything is counted.
Corroboration. A story normally needs two independent organisations. Five outlets republishing one wire report count as one source, not five.
Fact extraction and verification. Only claims present in the source articles may be used. A separate model, from a different provider than the one that wrote the text, checks every sentence against those claims. A sentence without support fails the whole draft — it is not "fixed".
Human editorial control. An editor reviews what goes out. Some stories are published only after a person decides to publish them; any post can be taken down with one action, and is. Nothing runs without someone watching it.

A daily cap limits how much is published, so volume never drives the decision. Stories that fail verification are discarded rather than rewritten until they pass.

"Developing — single source"

Stories carrying that label come from one outlet and have not been corroborated by a second newsroom. They are published only when the single source is an established newsroom with a public corrections policy, and they are always labelled — in the text, on the image and in the attribution. If you see that label, treat the story as unconfirmed.

Corrections

If something here is wrong, write to urgentintheworld@gmail.com and it will be corrected or removed. Being wrong happens; leaving it up is what damages a news account.

Images

Photographs on this site are file photos from freely licensed archives, marked as such and credited on the image itself. They illustrate the subject — they are not pictures of the reported event. We do not host agency photographs.

How it is made

Drafting and verification are automated, following the process above. Editorial control is not: an editor decides what is worth publishing, publishes stories manually when they deserve it, and removes anything that should not have gone out. Nothing is published that failed verification, and nothing runs unsupervised.

Who is behind it

Ricardo Nakano. Contact: urgentintheworld@gmail.com
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