About Ziņnesis

Every few minutes Ziņnesis reads the public news feeds of 125 media outlets and groups articles about the same event into one story. That way you see not just the headline, but how many different outlets are covering the event and how each of them reports it.

This is the English edition: stories from English-language media covering Latvia. News in Latvian is in the Latvian edition, and news in Russian in the Russian edition of Ziņnesis.

How we select stories

Articles are grouped into a story by link, headline and text similarity — automatically, with no editor involved.
The number next to a headline shows how many different outlets are covering it; several sections of one publisher count as a single voice.
On the front page, stories covered by more outlets and more recent stories rank higher.
We show only the headline, a short excerpt and a link. The article always opens on the publisher’s own site.

“What we know” — AI summary

For stories covered by at least three different outlets, we show a 2–3 sentence summary marked “AI” above the list of sources. It is generated automatically by a language model (Anthropic Claude) solely from those outlets’ headlines and excerpts — no other sources, no speculation and no opinions. If a summary contains a number that does not appear in any source, we discard it and show the source’s excerpt instead. The summary is refreshed once at least two more outlets start covering the story. It can be wrong — always read the outlets’ own articles for the full picture.

Latvian- and Russian-language coverage

Latvia has both Latvian- and Russian-language media, and they do not always cover the same events. In the Latvian and Russian editions, Ziņnesis compares the two automatically and shows stories that one side is not covering — those reported by at least three outlets in one language over the past 48 hours, but not by outlets in the other.

Morning briefing

Every morning at 7:00 — the ten top stories, readable in four minutes: the ones covered by the most different outlets in the past 24 hours (no more than three from any one section). Today’s briefing · you can get it by email or as a notification here.

For publishers

If you would like your outlet to be included or removed, or would like us to show images from your articles, please get in touch.

Privacy

Ziņnesis does not use advertising cookies, does not sell or share data with advertisers and does not include third-party trackers. The share buttons are plain links — they do not load scripts from Facebook, X or any other network.

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