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.

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.

Panel id	Title	Variants
`politics`	World News	Full / tech / finance / commodity
`us`	United States	Full
`europe`	Europe	Full
`middleeast`	Middle East	Full
`africa`	Africa	Full
`latam`	Latin America	Full
`asia`	Asia-Pacific	Full

All free. Source curation and entitlement live in src/config/variants/full.ts (and equivalents).

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).

Panel id	Title	Typical variant
`economic-news`	Economic News	Full / finance / commodity
`markets-news`	Markets News	Finance
`crypto-news`	Crypto News	Finance
`climate-news`	Climate News	Full / commodity
`mining-news`	Mining News	Commodity
`commodity-news`	Commodity News	Commodity
`commodities-news`	Commodities News	Finance

All free.

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.

Panel id	Title
`startups`	Startups & VC
`unicorns`	Unicorns
`accelerators`	Accelerators & Demo Days
`regionalStartups`	Global Startup News
`fintech`	Fintech & Trading Tech
`ipo`	IPO & SPAC
`layoffs`	Layoffs Tracker
`producthunt`	Product Hunt
`thinktanks`	Think Tanks
`vcblogs`	VC Insights & Essays
`defense-patents`	R&D Signal
`ai-regulation`	AI Regulation Dashboard
`tech-hubs`	Hot Tech Hubs
`ai`	AI/ML News / AI/ML
`cloud`	Cloud
`hardware`	Hardware
`dev`	Dev tools
`security`	Security
`github`	GitHub

All free. Specific sub-feeds are configured in src/config/variants/tech.ts.

Finance streams (finance variant)

The finance variant's content-stream panels are tighter and market-focused.

Panel id	Title
`bonds`	Bonds
`centralbanks`	Central Bank Watch
`derivatives`	Derivatives & Options
`forex`	Forex
`institutional`	Institutional
`policy`	Policy
`fin-regulation`	Financial Regulation
`commodity-regulation`	Regulation & Policy
`analysis`	Market Analysis

All free. Stream configuration lives in src/config/variants/finance.ts.

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.

Panel id	Title
`live-news`	Energy Headlines
`energy`	Energy Markets News
`supply-chain`	Chokepoints & Routes

All free. Stream configuration lives in src/config/variants/energy.ts and src/config/feeds.ts.

Happy variant feeds

The happy variant (positive-news product) replaces conflict-centric feeds with a curated set of constructive-news surfaces.

Panel id	Title
`species`	Conservation Wins
`breakthroughs`	Scientific Breakthroughs
`progress`	Progress Signals
`spotlight`	Spotlight
`giving`	Giving & Philanthropy
`digest`	Daily Digest
`events`	Positive Events
`funding`	Funding
`counters`	Live Counters
`gov`	Government Action
`renewable`	Renewable Energy

All free. Stream configuration lives in src/config/variants/happy.ts.

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.

Backed by endpoints

Feed family	Endpoint	Notes
Digest feed	`GET /api/news/v1/list-feed-digest`	Pre-aggregated RSS digest by site variant.
Summary cache lookup	`GET /api/news/v1/summarize-article-cache`	Cache-only GET for deterministic article-summary keys; use `POST /api/news/v1/summarize-article` to generate.
arXiv papers	`GET /api/research/v1/list-arxiv-papers`	ResearchService academic-paper feed.
Trending repos	`GET /api/research/v1/list-trending-repos`	ResearchService GitHub trending feed.
Hacker News items	`GET /api/research/v1/list-hackernews-items`	ResearchService Hacker News feed.
Giving activity	`GET /api/giving/v1/get-giving-summary`	Global personal-giving and philanthropy summary used by happy-variant giving surfaces.

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.