How Newphoria reads the news
For each story in the news, Newphoria reads every piece of coverage we can reach and raises up the strongest one. Every raised story carries three numbers — craft, divergence, verifiability. The numbers are the compass we use; we hand it to you so you can read with us.
Where the news comes from
Our sources are chosen, not scraped. They sit in five tiers, by role. Tiers A–D are eligible to be raised; Tier E is a mood signal that never becomes a hero piece. Tier C is deliberately heterodox — voices that disagree with each other, because the divergence axis has nothing to measure without them.
| Tier | Role |
|---|---|
| A | Broadsheets, wire, investigative The spine of the raise-up pool. |
| B | Specialists and international Depth in a beat or a region. |
| C | Heterodox Ideologically distinct voices, chosen because they disagree. |
| D | Primary documents Government, regulatory, academic — the source material. |
| E | Mood · discovery Never raised. A read on what’s being talked about. |
One piece raised per story
For each news event, Newphoria reads every piece of coverage in our ingest and picks one to raise up. The raised piece is linked directly — we don't copy, we point. The reader gets the fastest possible path to the best reporting on any given topic.
Other coverage of the same story isn't discarded. It's shown as “+N other angles” under the hero piece, so you can see the shape of the conversation without having to wade through it.
Read the best · See it differently · Follow the thread. That's the whole product, in seven words.
The three axes: κ · Δ · φ
Every raised story carries three numbers. They are the same three numbers, computed the same way, for every story on the site. This is the compass Newphoria uses to read the news — and the compass we hand you so you can read it with us.
Some pieces name their sources, quote them directly, cite specific numbers, address the full context. Others lean on framing. κ measures the first kind.
Reading the number.2— thin coverage, headline-only or superficial.5— standard news reportage.7+— strong, well-sourced, substantive.9+— rare excellence, fully sourced and primary-document-rich
A story's raised piece is the one with the highest κ across its entire cluster.
The interesting moments are when careful newsrooms disagree about the same facts. Δ measures that disagreement by comparing how each outlet’s coverage actually reads — not by asking.
Reading the number.2— consensus story, everyone writing essentially the same piece.5— mixed framings, normal variance in emphasis.7+— genuinely contested framings, worth reading carefully
High Δ doesn't mean any one framing is wrong — it means there's a gap between how different newsrooms are making sense of the same event. The gap is where insight lives.
The most verifiable journalism traces back to primary documents — central bank releases, regulatory filings, academic papers. φ reflects whether the raised piece draws from them.
Reading the number- no pill — no primary-source citation detected yet (most stories start here)
.5— one linked primary source.9+— multiply-cited, grounded in primary documents
φ coverage starts sparse and grows as more sources and more patterns are added. It's not a flaw of a story if φ is missing — it just hasn't been traced yet.
The topology of today
Every article mentions entities: people, places, organizations. Newphoria extracts them and turns them into nodes in a graph. Edges connect entities that appear together in the same sub-cluster of coverage — not just because they were in the same article, but because they were part of telling the same story.
On /today/ every story card carries a row of “threads”: clickable chips that take you to an entity's own page, which collects every raised piece mentioning it. On /graph/ the whole topology opens up as an interactive force-directed map — drag nodes, zoom, click to follow the thread. For the full index, see the entity list.
This is what distinguishes Newphoria from a time-ordered feed: you can navigate the news by topic rather than by chronology. The story of the day is also the story of its people and its places.
Membership
Two roles
Observer — free, forever. You see:
- Today’s raised stories with craft (κ) and divergence (Δ) scores
- Entity threads and the interactive graph
- The compass and how-it-works guide
Member — $7/month or $60/year. You also see:
- How sources frame it — the detailed framing comparison showing exactly how each outlet angles the same story
- The archive — every raised story going back months, not just the last 72 hours
- Daily digest — top 5 stories with framing cards, delivered to your inbox every morning
- Custom alerts — “notify me when energy stories spike” or “alert me when an entity trends”
- Personal stats — your voting history, agreement rate, reading patterns
- Calibration votes — shape which pieces get raised by voting on the scoring
No profiles. No social. No performance.
Membership is about the instrument, not the audience. There are no usernames, no public profiles, no comment threads, no leaderboards, no badges, no follower counts. Your email lives in an encrypted database separate from the content graph. Your votes influence the scoring algorithm but are never attributed to you publicly. Your reputation weight is computed internally and never shown — not even to you.
This is the opposite of a social network. We believe the best way to serve readers is to remove every incentive to perform.
Calibration votes
Members submit three kinds of calibration:
- “Was this the right piece to raise up?” — confirm, runner-up, or neither
- Flag a model’s framing as accurate or distorted
- Suggest a primary-source citation we missed
Votes feed back into the scoring system. Over time, members whose choices align with the eventual consensus get slightly more weight in that calibration loop.
Pricing
$7 a month, or $60 a year. The Observer tier is the free trial. Cancel anytime.
Privacy by design. Your email and payment information are stored separately from anything you read or vote on. The content graph never sees your address — only a one-way hash of it.
Privacy
Effective April 11, 2026.
What we hold
- Your email address, used for sign-in and (if you choose) the daily digest. Never shared, never sold.
- A hashed form of your password. We cannot read it.
- Your calibration votes, linked to a one-way hash of your email. The content graph never sees the address itself.
- Payment details — handled by Stripe. We never see card numbers.
What we don’t do
- No analytics trackers. No pixels. No cookies beyond the sign-in token.
- No browsing-history or reading-pattern profiling.
- No third-party advertising. No data brokers.
- No persistent IP logs beyond what rate-limiting needs in the moment.
Data deletion
Email privacy@newphoria.news for full deletion of your account. We confirm within 48 hours.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version lives here with a new effective date. We email about changes only when they’re material.
Terms
Effective April 11, 2026.
The service
Newphoria is an automated reading instrument. We surface publicly published news, score it, and link out. Every headline points to the original publisher.
Accounts
- You must be 16 or older.
- One account per person. No automated sign-ups.
- You’re responsible for keeping your password secure.
- We may suspend accounts that abuse the calibration system.
Membership
- The first 22 founding memberships are free.
- After that, $7/month or $60/year, billed through Stripe.
- Cancel anytime; cancellation takes effect at the end of the period.
- Refunds handled case-by-case — write to support@newphoria.news.
Content
- Headlines and article text belong to their publishers. We link, we don’t copy.
- The Lens, the three-axis scores, and the entity graph are Newphoria’s own work.
- Share links freely. Do not scrape or republish our scores or commentary without permission.
AI disclosure
Newphoria uses local AI models for scoring, categorization, and editorial commentary. Nothing leaves the machine. AI-written outputs are labelled where they appear (The Lens, the score badges). Editorial judgment on sources, tiers, and the system itself is human.
Limitation of liability
The service is provided as-is. We make no guarantee of accuracy, completeness, or timeliness. Newphoria is a reading tool, not a primary source — always read the original article. We are not liable for decisions made from our scores or commentary.
Governing law
Alberta, Canada.