BeatNews provides an AI‑driven monitoring platform that aggregates public‑sector updates—such as city council decisions, school board budgets, and health alerts—into a single, timestamped feed. The service automatically summarizes each change, tags it by category, and sends real‑time email alerts, allowing reporters to instantly access the original source and focus on story development without manual monitoring.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Problem
Local journalists must manually monitor numerous government and public service websites to find relevant updates, a process that is time‑consuming and prone to missed stories. The fragmented nature of these sources makes it difficult to track changes in real time and quickly assess their news value.
Solution
BeatNews offers an AI‑driven monitoring platform that continuously scrapes and aggregates updates from local government, school boards, public safety, and other civic sites into a single, timestamped feed. Each item is automatically categorized and paired with an AI‑generated summary that explains the change and its relevance to a reporter’s beat. The system sends instant email alerts for breaking updates and provides direct links to the original sources with highlighted changes. Newsrooms can create custom sub‑feeds, organize content by beat or priority, and collaborate through a team‑first interface, eliminating the need for manual source checking.
Target Audience
BeatNews is designed for local reporters, beat editors, and newsrooms that need timely, automated monitoring of municipal and public‑service information.
Features
- Continuous real‑time scraping of local government and public service sites into a unified, timestamped feed
- AI‑generated, concise summaries that highlight what changed and why it matters to specific beats
- Immediate email alerts for breaking updates, ensuring reporters receive news as it happens
- Click‑through access to original sources with highlighted changes for rapid verification
- Customizable sub‑feeds and smart beat folders for organizing content by reporter, beat, or story priority
- 99.9% uptime and zero‑setup deployment, providing reliable 24/7 monitoring
- Team collaboration tools that allow newsroom members to share and prioritize alerts