News Feeds

Every variant of WorldMonitor ships a set of content-stream panels — regional news, topical news, tech / startup feeds, finance and commodity streams, energy headlines, and happy-variant feel-good streams. They share a common panel framework: ranked headlines, source attribution, activity tracking, and Cmd+K / custom-monitor highlighting. This page is the collective reference so the per-panel behaviour is findable without writing one page per feed. Every panel name in the tables below is also registered in at least one *_PANELS block in src/config/panels.ts. When you open a panel and the content is empty, check Data Sources and the global health endpoint for the underlying feed’s status. For the scoring, freshness, dedupe, story tracking, brief filtering, cooldown, LLM, and bias controls shared across these feeds, see the canonical News Digest and Briefing methodology.

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Regional news

Regional panels scope the world to one macro-region’s news stream, with language coverage and source curation optimised for that region. They share the regional news family in the geopolitical variant and appear in the Cmd+K “News” group. All free. Source curation and entitlement live in src/config/variants/full.ts (and equivalents).

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Topical news

Topic-scoped news feeds — each panel is the canonical news view for its domain. Topical panels are usually paired with the matching intelligence / data panel (e.g. Crypto News next to Crypto Sectors). All free.

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Tech / startup streams (tech variant)

The tech variant ships a large family of content streams covering the startup ecosystem, infrastructure trends, and tech-policy signals. They appear in the tech variant’s panel grid and are reachable from Cmd+K. All free. Specific sub-feeds are configured in src/config/variants/tech.ts.

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Finance streams (finance variant)

The finance variant’s content-stream panels are tighter and market-focused. All free. Stream configuration lives in src/config/variants/finance.ts.

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Energy streams (energy variant)

The energy variant ships a focused set of content streams for live energy headlines, oil and gas markets, and supply-chain chokepoints. The site has client-side ENERGY_FEEDS; the server digest currently normalises variant=energy to full, so energy-only categories can use direct per-feed fallback when they are absent from the digest. All free. Stream configuration lives in src/config/variants/energy.ts and src/config/feeds.ts.

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Happy variant feeds

The happy variant (positive-news product) replaces conflict-centric feeds with a curated set of constructive-news surfaces. All free. Stream configuration lives in src/config/variants/happy.ts.

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Shared behaviour across all news panels

• Activity tracking — newly arrived items get the standard new-item visual treatment.
• Custom Monitor highlighting — matching articles surface their monitor colour as an accent (including inside clusters).
• Cmd+K discoverability — each panel is searchable by its title and category.
• Free by default — none of the news-feed panels are PRO-gated.

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Related

• Signal Intelligence — structural overview of how news feeds are classified, deduplicated, and ranked.
• News Digest and Briefing methodology — canonical scoring, freshness, story tracking, brief filtering, cooldown, LLM, and bias controls.
• Data Sources — the server digest feed inventory and broader upstream source list.
• My Monitors — how keyword monitors work across news feeds.