About HeadlineSift

What Is HeadlineSift?

HeadlineSift is an AI-powered news aggregation platform. We track headlines across hundreds of trusted news sources, use artificial intelligence to identify when multiple outlets cover the same story, merge duplicate coverage into a single canonical entry, and rank stories by real-world significance — not clicks or engagement metrics.

How It Works

1. Fetching: Our system periodically fetches headlines from a curated list of RSS feeds and news APIs across multiple countries and categories.
2. Semantic Deduplication: AI analyzes headlines and content snippets to detect when the same story is being reported by multiple sources. Duplicate coverage is merged into a single canonical story entry.
3. Significance Ranking: Each story is scored on multiple dimensions — source trustworthiness, source diversity, freshness, and editorial signals — to produce a 0–100 rank score that reflects real-world importance.
4. AI Summarization: For top-ranked stories, AI generates a concise summary, explains why the story matters, identifies affected groups, and assesses confidence and impact levels.
5. Human Review: Our editorial team reviews AI-generated summaries before publication to ensure accuracy, neutrality, and compliance with our content policies.
6. Publication: Reviewed stories are published to the public site with full source attribution and links to original articles.

What We Are Not

HeadlineSift does not publish original reporting. We aggregate headlines and link to original sources. We do not produce investigative journalism or opinion pieces. Our AI summaries are for informational purposes only and should not be treated as authoritative accounts. Always read the original articles for full context.