The silence
See which outlets covered a story — and which ones quietly skipped it.
A calm place to read the news.
A calmer way to read the news.
Echo Harbor is a quiet room for the world's news. We gather coverage from across the globe and retell each story with warmth, context, and honesty — so you can understand what is happening without the noise, the urgency, or the dread.
What makes us different
See how the story was covered — not just what happened.
Every morning, The Register reads the day's coverage across outlets and shows you its shape: who reported, who stayed silent, and how the framing differed.
The human cost
We track who named the people affected and who left them as a number.
The divergence
Watch where outlets agreed, where they split, and how hot or cold each ran.
What you find here
What you get
Calm-voice editorial. Bias scoring. Cluster-aware context. All in one place.
What you find here
- Read at your own pace — Every story comes in four depths — from a calm 2-sentence overview to the full warm narrative. Go only as deep as you want.
- Quiet honesty — Every article shows its confidence and links to the original. No manufactured certainty, no hidden framing.
- The full picture — When several outlets cover the same event, we gather them so you can see how different voices tell it.
- Context before alarm — We retell stories to help you understand, not to trigger a reaction. Nothing is designed to make you anxious.
Honest, not neutral
We don't pretend the news has no shape. We show each article's framing, the perspectives it carries, and the ones it leaves out — so you can read with your eyes open.
Less noise, more meaning
Instead of flooding you with headlines, we distill each story into layers you can read in a moment or sit with slowly. Whichever you need today.
A place that protects
We never auto-play, never push urgency, never sell your attention. Your reading history, reactions, and saves stay private to you.
What we stand for
100% Private
No tracking. No surveillance. What you read here stays here.
No Ads, Ever
No banners, no sponsored placements, no engagement bait. Just the news.
No Data Selling
Your reading habits aren't a product. They never will be.
How it works
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Create an account in under a minute
Click Sign up (or Create account) from the top-right menu. Enter your name, email, and a strong password. We'll email you a verification link — click it to activate your account. You can then sign in and set your preferred language.
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Subscribe to The Register
The Register is our daily editorial newsletter — one calm issue, every morning. Open The Register from the top menu to read the latest issue or browse the archive. To get it by email, sign in and confirm your subscription from the newsletter card on the homepage. Issues are also available as a downloadable PDF.
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Read a story at the right depth
Every article offers four reading levels. Start on The Wire for a calm 2-4 sentence distillation. Tap The Pulse for urgency bullets, The Thread for a condensed retelling, and The Hearth for the full editorial narrative. Go only as deep as the story merits.
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Compare how outlets cover the same event
When a story matters, click the topic tag above the headline. The cluster page lists every article we've processed on that event, sorted by relevance to the center. Scan the publications column to see which outlets are covering what angle.
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Use the analytical lenses
On any article page, the right sidebar shows lenses — bias, geopolitics, economic impact, and more. Click a lens card to open its full analysis: framing, perspectives, metrics, and confidence. Press Escape to close and return to the article.
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Save and track your reading
Click the bookmark icon on any article to save it. Go to Account > Saved Articles for your reading list, or Account > Reading History to see everything you've opened. Like or dislike articles to record your reactions.
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Subscribe to email digests
On the homepage, enter your email in the newsletter box and pick a frequency — daily, weekly, or monthly. Confirm via the link we send, and you'll receive curated digests. Every digest includes an unsubscribe link.
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Run a full harvest-to-publish flow (admin)
Admin > Pipeline > Harvest to pull fresh articles from GNews. Admin > Pipeline > Processing to run the AI pipeline over selected raw articles. The system analyzes, generates hearth narratives, clusters topics, and runs lenses automatically. Watch progress stream in real time.
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Regenerate hearth for pending articles (admin)
Admin > Pipeline > Hearth shows how many articles have or lack a hearth narrative. Click Run pending to backfill only missing ones, or Run all to overwrite every article. Progress appears below with a live log.
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Generate reading levels (admin)
Admin > Pipeline > Reading Levels shows how many eligible articles have all four reading layers. Click Run pending to process only the ones still missing levels, or Run all to regenerate for every article with a hearth. One LLM call produces Wire + Pulse + Thread at once.
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Schedule recurring jobs (admin)
Admin > Scheduler lets you create cron-style jobs: hourly harvests, nightly pipeline runs, weekly clustering, etc. Pick frequency, hour, and minute; the beat worker dispatches tasks automatically. You can pause or delete any scheduled job.
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Follow a series and set your delivery pace
Find series on a writer's profile (writer series) or the Podcasts page (platform podcast series), then click Follow. Choose how often you want the next installment — daily, weekly, or monthly — and whether to start from the beginning or only receive new ones. You get one installment at a time by email and in your in-app queue. Manage cadence, pause, or unfollow from Account > My Series, where you can also set a default cadence and preferred delivery time.
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Follow a writer and manage notifications
On any writer's profile, use the Follow box: tick Articles, Series, and/or Podcasts, and pick how email arrives — immediately, a daily digest, or in-app only. When that writer publishes, you'll see it in the notification bell (top-right, with an unread count), on the Notifications page, and by email per your choice. Open the bell to read recent alerts or mark all read; manage or unfollow from the same Follow box on their profile.
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Create and manage a series (admin)
Platform podcast series live in Admin > Podcasts. When uploading an episode, pick an existing series or type a new series title (leave blank for a standalone episode) and set its position. The 'Podcast series' panel lists your series with publish, reorder, remove, and active-follower counts. Tick 'complete' on the final episode so caught-up followers' subscriptions finish. Writer series arrive via the Press API and appear on the writer's profile.
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Receive and retry podcasts from Press (admin)
Writers publish podcasts through the Press tool, which calls POST /api/v1/press/podcasts with a press-scoped key. Admin > Podcasts shows a Press intake panel listing each episode's status, external ref, and series, with a Retry button that re-fetches the source audio and reprocesses a failed one. Manage the press keys under Admin > Publishing.
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Verify your email (or get a new link)
After signing up, click the link in the verification email to activate your account. Missed it? Go to Login and open 'Didn't get your verification email?', enter your email, and we'll send a fresh link (valid 24 hours). The same box opens automatically (with your email filled in) if you try to sign in before verifying.
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Understand your audience (admin)
Admin > Audience merges login accounts and public newsletter subscribers (matched by email), with filters for All / Accounts / Newsletter / Account+Newsletter and live counts. Each row shows account status (Active / Pending / Disabled), a Newsletter chip, and links to view that person's Activity or Manage the account. The Users page also tags each account and offers a 'Resend verification email' button for pending ones.
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Site analytics: growth, heatmap & reports (admin)
The Admin dashboard shows an Account growth chart (toggle day / week / month / year). Admin > Metrics > Heatmap shows which site areas are accessed by hour of day, plus section totals and top pages. Open any user's Activity report (from Audience, Users, or the Metrics top-users table) to see the content and preferences they engage with. A weekly summary email — articles processed and read, the week's top 10 articles, and user growth — is sent to platform admins automatically.
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Recover pending accounts (admin)
On Admin > Users, any account still pending verification shows a 'Resend verification email' button. A scheduled weekly job (Admin > Scheduler → Verification reminder) also emails every pending account a fresh link automatically — retime it, or cap how many are emailed per run, from the Scheduler page.
Part of a wider family of tools
WikiClip — our AI-powered contextual browser — creates meaningful connections as you explore, helping you build your personal knowledge base without ads, tracking, or distractions. Echo Harbor News is its calm-news sibling: same principles, applied to journalism.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Echo Harbor News?
Echo Harbor News is a news intelligence platform. We aggregate coverage from established publications and add analytical layers — bias detection, confidence scoring, topic clustering, and progressive reading levels — so you can see the full picture of any story and decide for yourself what it means.
What are the four reading levels?
Every article is available in four progressive depths: The Wire (a 2-4 sentence philosophical distillation), The Pulse (urgency bullet points), The Thread (a condensed narrative), and The Hearth (the full editorial narrative). Start shallow and dive deeper only when a story earns your attention.
What is The Hearth?
The Hearth is our warm, human retelling of a news story — built from the underlying facts rather than reproducing the original text. It includes a pull quote, a main narrative, key facts, and notable quotes. Every hearth narrative links back to the original source.
What do the confidence scores mean?
Every article receives a confidence rating — High, Medium, or Low — based on source quality, the level of detail available, and how well the story is corroborated across outlets. High means well-sourced and verified; Low means the story is emerging or thinly reported. The score is displayed as a colored dot and a badge on every article.
What are analytical lenses?
Lenses are AI-generated perspectives that sit alongside each article: bias framing, geopolitical context, economic impact, human cost, and more. Click any lens in the sidebar to see how the story reads through that specific analytical frame.
What are topic clusters?
When multiple outlets cover the same event, we group their articles into a topic cluster. Click any topic to see the central story plus every related piece, ranked by relevance. This lets you compare coverage side-by-side instead of being locked into a single outlet's angle.
Who's behind this
Echo Harbor News is built by a small team at Echo Harbor LLC. Learn about the company, the mission, and the people on our About page.
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