About The National Press

The National Press collects local news reported by television stations across the United States and presents each story as a single plain sentence, on a feed and on a map.

The summaries are written by AI

Every one-sentence summary on this site was generated by Google's Gemini model from the originating station's own reporting. No person writes them, and no person reviews each one before it appears. They are labelled Built with Google Gemini throughout, and the exact model that wrote a given sentence is recorded alongside it.

The model is instructed to add no facts beyond what the source reporting contains. That instruction is not a guarantee. We audit the live summaries against their sources and publish nothing without a model-written sentence attached, but a summary can still be wrong in a way an automated check does not catch.

Read the original. Every headline links to the station that reported the story. If a summary and the original disagree, the original is the journalism.

Where the reporting comes from

The stories are original local reporting from Sinclair-owned and affiliated television stations. We link to each station and name it on every story. We do not reproduce their articles — only a headline, a summary, and a link back.

Stations are named the way their audiences know them. A story from WBFF appears as FOX45 Baltimore, because the call sign is not what anyone calls it.

What the map is showing

Each story is drawn as a circle, and the size of the circle is how precisely we know where the story happened — not how important it is. A story pinned to a city draws a small circle; one known only to a state draws a wide, diffuse one. Stories that are not about a particular place are not pinned at all, because putting a dot in the middle of a state would assert something nobody knows.

What we do not collect

This site has no accounts, no advertising trackers, and no analytics that identify you. If you use Near me, your location is read by your browser, sent once to find stories close to you, and never stored.

The National Press is a product of A New Media. Questions about a specific story are best directed to the station that reported it.