RSS feed monitoring for local news across languages
Add the RSS feeds of the news sites you follow, from national outlets to small local papers. FirstTide checks each feed every few minutes, groups the items about one event into a story with an English headline, and links each item to its article.
Why local news feeds are worth reading
Local and regional sites report what happens near them, in their own language, and most of them publish an RSS feed. A list of those feeds covers a region in more depth than any single national outlet.
Reading 50 feeds in 5 languages by hand is a full shift. FirstTide monitors them for you and files each item on the story it belongs to, beside the posts from your channels and accounts.
Drought and fires damage coffee farms around Caconde
Caconde, São Paulo state, Brazil
First posted by a growers cooperative channel at 08:20. 3 more of your feeds posted it in the next 2 days.
Incêndio atinge cafezais em Caconde.
Fire reaches coffee fields in Caconde.
Produtores de Caconde relatam perdas com a seca e o fogo.
Caconde growers report losses from the drought and the fire.
Seca prolongada ameaça a próxima safra de arábica.
Long drought threatens the next arabica harvest.
Brazil drought and fires damage coffee farms.
Medium
4 sources report it, the last a wire service under its own name.
Add a feed by its address
Paste the feed's address. FirstTide finds the site and its language, your team gives it a rating, and its items start joining stories.
What FirstTide reads from a feed
- Every new item.Each new item is picked up on the next check of its feed and filed on its story.
- Title and summary.It reads each item's title and summary in the language the site writes in, and links to the full article on the site.
- More than 130 languages.Items about one event join one story with an English headline, and any item translates on request.
- Feeds beside channels.Feed items join the same stories as posts from Telegram channels and X accounts.
FirstTide reads Telegram channels and X accounts the same way.
See your feeds as stories.
We run FirstTide on a demo list of local news feeds and open a story with you. If it fits your work, a 30-day pilot follows on the feeds your team picks.