June 3, 2025

Local News: Canada & Great Britain

Your local news coverage just went international. We’ve expanded our Local News product to Canada and Great Britain, bringing our total coverage to over 71,000 locations and 83,000 local news sources across three major English-speaking markets. Monitor breaking stories before they reach national outlets, wherever your business operates.
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Supply Chain Disruption Events

Track production stoppages, component shortages, and facility disruptions with our newest structured event type. Monitor risk levels, affected industries, expected timeframes, and geographic impacts – all extracted from news sources in near real-time.
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Robots.txt Compliance Parameter

Build responsible applications with our new compliance filtering feature. The optional robots_compliant parameter filters content that respects publisher guidelines, reducing legal risks while maintaining strong relationships. This customer-requested feature supports ethical AI development.
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📰 Local News: French & Spanish Language Support

Expanding Local News beyond English with French and Spanish language coverage across the US, Canada, and Great Britain. Access hyper-local intelligence in multiple languages from the same geographic markets, opening new opportunities for multilingual organizations and diverse communities.

🔎 Enhanced Asian Market Coverage

In response to strong demand from financial institutions, we’re expanding our coverage of Chinese and Japanese news sources. This will include data from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and Japan to better support global financial models and business intelligence needs.

📡 AI Integration via Model Context Protocol

Soon, you’ll connect NewsCatcher directly with AI platforms like Claude and ChatGPT, enabling natural language queries against your news data. Imagine asking “What are current trends for Bitcoin?” and receiving analysis drawn from multiple sources.

Fighting Global Health Corruption with AI-Powered News Intelligence

Transparency International Global Health launched the Global Health Atlas, a first-of-its-kind AI tool for tracking healthcare corruption worldwide. Powered by NewsCatcher’s global news intelligence, the Atlas monitors and analyzes corruption reports as they emerge, mapping patterns and impacts on people’s access to care.

The tool transforms how scattered corruption reporting reaches civil society groups, policymakers, and advocates who can act on these insights. It provides ongoing visibility into procurement fraud, medicine diversion, and political interference across global health systems.

Working on transparency, compliance, or risk monitoring initiatives? NewsCatcher’s continuous news intelligence can power your mission-critical applications too.

Unlock the Full Power of Historical News Archive

To efficiently access our extensive historical data (2019-present), use these key techniques:
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🧠 Plan Before You Query: Use our aggregation endpoint to estimate data volume before retrieving articles. This helps you understand which time periods contain the most relevant content.
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🧩 Think in Time Chunks: Process data in monthly or weekly segments instead of querying multiple years at once. This prevents timeouts and ensures reliable data retrieval.
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🔄 Start Recent, Go Backward: Prioritize recent data first, then work backward through time periods for optimal performance and actionable insights.
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