Newsdrop

Digital newspaper with minimalist news summaries

5 followers

Digital newspaper with minimalist news summaries

5 followers

Newsdrop is a smart news curation app for iPhone and Apple Watch. It is based around a skimmable news feed and news summaries crafted to deliver as much information as possible in under 200 words.

Launch tags:Productivity•News

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This is simply made for people like me. Always running somewhere without proper time to actually read the news. Awesome job!

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6yr ago

Newsdrop

Maker

@ljubisa_kukulj Thanks! Happy to hear you liked it!

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6yr ago

How do you avoid bias when compressing a long story into a single short headline?

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6yr ago

Newsdrop

Maker

@jimmy_cerone Great question! We actually spent a great deal of time trying to find the best way to deal with this. What we came up with are guidelines that our editors follow as well as some backend mechanisms that make them double check their work. On top of that, there are certain wording structures which we use that are more preferable than others in order to maintain objectivity.

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6yr ago

@jimmy_cerone @dino_vidakovic are there any external checks? Like could you perhaps use a Grounded.news API to provide an additional layer?

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6yr ago

@jimmy_cerone @dino_vidakovic *ground.news

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6yr ago

Newsdrop

Maker

@jimmy_cerone that actually never occurred to us. I will discuss with the team and let you know our thoughts. Thanks!

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6yr ago

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That's something I'd love to use. One question though, how do you deal with fake news?

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6yr ago

Newsdrop

Maker

Good question @sadamiak. We rely on our editors to analyze and evaluate the credibility of news they write about. We also try to find more than one source on any given topic, which reduces the chances of someting blatantly fake slipping through the cracks. It we're writing about something very partisan, we look at sources from both sides of the aisle, so to say.

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6yr ago

Oh this is amazing! Reminds me of the app, that a 17 year old sold to yahoo!

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6yr ago

Newsdrop

Maker

@sharlsz Hi Sharlene, thanks for the kind words! If you're talking about Summly, yes, we're a bit similar, though we've looked at algorithm-based solutions and figured that the tech is not quite there yet, but more importantly, people still prefer the human touch :)

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6yr ago