Gather News
Collect news from thousands of different sources
NewsBlocks aims to convert all the world’s news into verified data and store it on a tamper-proof blockchain. Anyone can use this global news archive to create a new generation of trusted news applications, such as news sites, fact checking and fake news detectors, chatbots and voice applications.
GLOBAL NEWS ARCHIVE
The world’s largest news archive on the blockchain
NEWS MARKETPLACE
A decentralised marketplace for news and data
APPLICATION PLATFORM
Create news applications using trusted, open, data
MANIFESTO
News is broken: Facebook is full of trash and fake news. Google is working with Chinese censors. Twitter shadowbans political posts. Wikipedia is an ocean of toxic bias.
We need to throw it all out and start again.
NewsBlocks completely rethinks news, by converting traditional news articles into verified data and storing it on a censorship-resistant blockchain. Anyone can use this data — the world’s largest news archive — to build trusted news applications.
Join our revolution! Our contributors help keep our data free of bias, all while earning NewsBlocks tokens for their work.
Doesn’t that sound like good news? Let’s get started…
NEWS IS DATA
NewsBlocks primary innovation is that news is data. Once news articles are converted into structured data it can be verified and stored on a censor-resistant blockchain and given a price, creating a global news marketplace that developers can use as the foundation of the next generation of news applications.
Extract Data
Use Machine Learning and crowdsourcing to extract summarized news data
Verify & Store
Verify using the NewsBlocks protocol and add to blockchain, creating a store of news value
Create Apps
Developers retrieve data to create trusted news applications
CASE STUDY: NEWSLINES APPLICATION
Newslines is the first application built on the NewsBlocks platform. It uses NewsBlocks as the core of a social news network that gives you complete unbiased news feeds on any topic.
In 2017, Newslines distributed over 1700 news summaries about Conor McGregor, the UFC fighter, to a network of over two million Facebook fans, resulting in 100 million views on Facebook and between one to six million monthly pageviews, for just this single newsline.
Check out some sample newslines…
The Slow Readers Club
The Slow Readers Club
The ultimate fan reference for the UK’s best upcoming band. Includes interviews, live performances, and album, video and single releases.
Robin Williams
The news history of the comedian and actor, showing all of his films.
Emma Sulkowicz
Unbiased news timeline of US campus alleged rape controversy, created from highly-partisan sources. Shown in biography view.
Ashley Highfield
A profile of a UK business leader that compiles news articles, videos, and speeches, in a more effective way than Google Search or LinkedIn.
Mt Gox
The complete news history of the failed cryptocurrency exchange.
TEAM
Mark Devlin
Chief Executive OfficerFounded and published 707 issues of Metropolis, Japan’s No. 1 English magazine. Founded japantoday.com, the largest news and discussion site about Japan in the world, in 2000. Sold business in 2007 at $4 million in annual revenues, 20% profit, and 40 staff.
Mary Devlin
Chief Operations OfficerFormer Ford, Andersen Consulting and UBS IT/business analyst. Founding CEO of Metropolis, Japan’s No. 1 English magazine. Founded japantoday.com, the largest news and discussion site about Japan in the world. Sold Japan business in 2007 at $4 million in annual revenues, 20% profit, and 40 staff.
Huw Evans
Chief Technology OfficerPhD in Distributed Systems from the University of Glasgow. 25 years’ experience in software development, recruitment, product, third-party and stakeholder management, IT architecture, and information security compliance.
Patrick Brennan
Business DevelopmentGlobal media executive who has worked with some of the world’s largest media organizations in digital, print, events, licensing, revenue generation, business development. Harvard Business School, PMD Executive Program class valedictorian.
James Shoemark
Advisor (The Startup Race)Founder and CEO of seven startups since Los Angeles 1991. One of Scotland's Innovation Leaders and Lynchpin between its Entrepreneurial / Investment Community. Author of radical accelerator programs: The Investment Readiness Sprint and The $1 Million Startup Race.”