About The Global Aggregate
Understanding how the same story is told differently around the world.
Who we are
The Global Aggregate is an independent news aggregation service that collects and clusters reporting from news outlets in 195 countries. Our goal is to make it easy for readers to compare how the same event is covered by different media around the world.
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What we do
Every few minutes, our system ingests headlines and articles from news feeds across the globe. Stories covering the same event are automatically grouped into clusters. You can then see, side by side, how a newspaper in the United States, a broadcaster in Japan, and a wire service in Nigeria each framed the same event — same facts, different emphasis.
We do not write original news. We surface and organise existing reporting so that readers can draw their own conclusions about media framing, emphasis, and omission.
How we compile stories
Our automated pipeline fetches articles from RSS feeds and news APIs. Each article is assigned a topic and country of origin. Articles about the same event are grouped into a cluster using semantic similarity. We do not alter headlines — every headline you see is reproduced exactly as the source outlet published it.
For each cluster, our editorial team writes a short 2–4 sentence summary in our own words, describing what happened and noting how the outlets' coverage differs. These summaries are clearly labelled as ours. We link to every source we quote, and we never paraphrase or change a headline's wording.
Sources that are operated or funded by a national government are labelled "State-affiliated source" as a factual disclosure. This label is not an editorial judgement about the accuracy of the reporting.
Editorial standards
We link every outlet we quote. We never change a headline's words. Our summaries are labelled as ours. If we get something wrong, we correct it and note the change at the bottom of the story. Read our full corrections policy →
Contact
Questions, corrections, or feedback? Use our contact page.