Frequently Asked Questions

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Click the bookmark icon on any article to save it. Your saved articles and full reading history are available from your Account page. You can also like or dislike articles to shape your personal view of the feed.

Subscribe with your email to receive curated digests. Choose daily, weekly, or monthly delivery. Every newsletter includes the top stories, trending clusters, and bias highlights for that period. You can unsubscribe at any time using the link in every digest.

The Register is Echo Harbor's daily editorial newsletter. Each morning, an editorial pipeline gathers fresh coverage, finds the calm centre of the day, and writes one issue per locale (English, Portuguese, Spanish). The Register is fully public — read it on the site, browse the archive, or download any issue as a PDF. Confirmed subscribers also receive it by email.

Your bookmarks, reactions, and reading history are tied to your account and only visible to you. We do not sell personal data. See our Privacy Policy for full details on what we collect and why.

The entire interface — including the Help Center, FAQ, and How-To guides — is available in English, Portuguese, and Spanish. Switch language from the top-right language selector at any time; your choice is remembered across sessions.

No. We aggregate and analyze coverage from established publications. We add structure, context, and transparency on top of existing journalism — we don't write the news. Original sources are always linked at the bottom of every article.

Our AI summaries, classifications, and lenses are provided for informational use. They draw directly from source text and published editorial metadata. As with any automated system, occasional errors happen — which is why every article shows its confidence score and links back to the original.

Visit the Podcasts page to browse AI-analyzed episodes. Each podcast page includes a full transcript, an editorial summary, key highlights, and notable quotes alongside the audio player.

Yes. The public API lives under /api/v1 and supports listing articles, fetching a single article by slug, and listing topic clusters. All endpoints require an X-API-Key header. Contact support to request an API key for integration work.

A Series is an ordered collection of related articles or podcast episodes — a serialized story, course, or show. Follow one and you receive the next installment at your own pace. Articles and podcasts stay separate, so you can follow each kind independently. Writer series appear on each writer's profile; platform podcast series appear on the Podcasts page.

Open any series and click Follow. Choose a cadence — daily, weekly, or monthly — and whether to start from the beginning or only get new installments. You'll receive one installment at a time, by email and in your in-app queue. Change the pace, pause, or unfollow any time from Account → My Series, where you can also set a default cadence and preferred delivery time.

Open a writer's profile and use the Follow box. Choose what you want alerts for — Articles, Series, and/or Podcasts — and how email should arrive: immediately, as a once-daily digest, or in-app only. New items then show up in the notification bell in the header (with an unread count) and on your Notifications page, plus email per your choice. Update your choices or unfollow from the same Follow box anytime.

Go to the Login page and open 'Didn't get your verification email?', enter your email, and we'll send a fresh link (valid 24 hours). If you try to sign in with an unverified account, that box opens automatically with your email already filled in. You can request a new link any time.

When you're signed in, the bell in the top bar shows unread notifications — open it for recent items or visit the Notifications page for the full list. Your account menu has Followed Writers (toggle alerts for each writer's articles, series, and podcasts, and choose email immediately / daily digest / in-app only) and My Series (per-series cadence plus your default delivery time).