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What NewsScope Offers Journalists & Researchers
NewsScope is a professional news intelligence platform by InfoTimes Canada — built to help investigative journalists, editorial teams, and media researchers analyze global news coverage with data-driven precision.
- Multi-source news scraping across Google News, BBC, CBC, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, NPR, and more
- Headline sentiment analysis and N-gram frequency trends over time
- Named entity recognition and source diversity (HHI) scoring
- AI-powered intelligence summaries in English and Arabic
- Interactive Recharts dashboards — timeline, source breakdown, sentiment arcs
- CSV and PDF export for publishing and archiving workflows
- Coverage across 121 countries and 15 languages