FirstTide grew out of a breaking-news desk.
Bernard Moerdler has run Bernie News Network (BNN), a breaking-news service on Telegram, WhatsApp and X, since 2018. In 2022 he tracked air-raid sirens across Ukraine. FirstTide is that work, for the stories your team follows.
Sirens across a country
Bernard launched Ukraine Siren Alerts on his own. It posted air-raid alerts on Twitter, then on Telegram and Facebook.
It gained a website with SMS and email alerts, a shelter map, and a conflict map built with the Project Owl OSINT community, with translation help from Translators without Borders.
2 million+ people alerted, by his count.
Who covered it, in 2022
What that work built into FirstTide
The first report of a strike or a closed border is usually a local post, in a local language. Within minutes it is reposted and translated, and the trail back to it gets hard to find. FirstTide keeps that trail.
Your sources, your choice
Each team picks and rates the channels FirstTide reads.
Every original kept
Each post keeps its script, its channel, its time and a link.
A level, with its reason
Each story says how well it is reported, in words, and why.
Your team makes the call
FirstTide files what your channels report. Your team decides.
Built for news desks, trading desks, defense and government, and OSINT.
Talk to the founder.
15 minutes on a demo list of public channels, and your questions answered. If it fits your work, a 30-day pilot follows on your own channels.