ContextNews
A personalized news feed you steer deliberately
A useful personalized news feed is transparent: you know which sources and contexts shape what you see. ContextNews does not substitute a black-box engagement score for your editorial judgment.
What "personal" means here
Personalization is the combination of your contexts, saved articles, language UI, and optional premium summaries—not a hidden ranking model that optimizes for clicks. You steer the inputs; the feed reflects them.
That is different from social feeds optimized for retention. If you want contextual news with a paper trail, you need explicit lanes and sources you can name.
Breadth without chaos
Echo chambers form when inputs are invisible. Here, you add outlets you disagree with into the same context. The timeline makes news perspectives legible: same story, different framings, one place to compare.
Saves and return visits
Saving articles builds a backlog you own—useful when a story moves fast and you need to re-open the piece that actually moved your understanding.
AI as a layer, not a substitute
Premium where enabled can add briefing-style overviews on contexts. They are meant to orient you before a deep read, not replace publishers. See AI news aggregator for how assistive features sit alongside RSS.
Underneath, you still have news by context: named lanes for beats, not a single undifferentiated stream.
Ads and trust
Guests and free accounts may see ads where configured; paid plans remove third-party ad slots. The goal is to keep the reading surface clean enough that you can focus on sources—see pricing for tiers.
Discussion stays on article URLs, so community features read as a social news platform anchored to journalism, not a viral sidebar.
Common questions
- How does personalization work?
- You pick contexts and sources, save what matters, and read in your UI language where feeds support it. Ranking is transparent editorial aggregation—not secret engagement scoring.
- Will I only see one viewpoint?
- Only if you build it that way. Add sources across the spectrum inside a context to compare how outlets frame the same events.
- What about ads?
- Guests and free accounts may see ads where configured; paid plans remove third-party ad slots. See pricing for details.
Ready to read with context?
- Understand faster—see what’s new versus repeated noise.
- See multiple perspectives—outlets in one lane you control.
- Reduce overload—contexts replace endless scrolling feeds.