The Harold & Ground News
The Harold vs. Ground News
Ground News shows you how every outlet is covering a story — and which stories one side is ignoring. The Harold strips the spin out and reads you the facts in five minutes. Same goal, opposite delivery.
The short version: Ground News is a rich, visual dashboard for analyzing coverage and spotting blind spots. The Harold is a five-minute audio briefing with the spin already removed — no dashboard, no reading, just the facts read to you. They pair well: one to start the day, one to dig in.
What Ground News does well
Ground News is built around a smart, transparent idea: every story is covered differently depending on who's reporting it. For any headline, it shows you the spread of coverage — how many outlets on the left, center, and right are running it — along with outlet ownership and factuality data. Its "Blindspot" feed surfaces stories one side of the spectrum is barely touching.
If you want to actively study the media landscape and catch what you'd otherwise miss, it's a genuinely excellent tool. It rewards curiosity and time.
What The Harold is for
The Harold cares about the same problem — spin and selective coverage — but it's designed for the moments when you can't, or don't want to, sit at a dashboard.
Overnight, Harold reads 400+ sources from across the spectrum, cross-references what actually happened, and strips out the framing and outrage. By morning, that's a tight five-minute audio briefing you listen to while getting ready. There's no app to scroll, no chart to read — you just press play and start the day informed.
Map the coverage
An app and site for comparing how outlets across the spectrum cover a story, and spotting what's under-reported.
Hear the facts
A 5-minute audio briefing with the spin removed — no screen, no scrolling, listened to while you get ready.
How they work together
Think of it as two speeds. The Harold is the calm, hands-free baseline — five minutes that tell you what happened so you're not starting the day from zero. Ground News is the deep dive — for when a story catches your attention and you want to see exactly how it's being framed and who's quiet about it.
We're genuinely glad tools like Ground News exist, and we'd never pretend to replace them. The Harold just does the one part it does best: an ad-free, spin-free way to start your morning — before you decide what's worth a closer look.
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