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# NewsMap
Tool Description: A browser-based visual news-monitoring tool that displays geolocated news stories on an interactive world map.
| **NewsMap** | **Quick Overview** |
| ---------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| URL | |
| What it does | Maps news stories geographically and allows users to search, filter and explore current and recent news. |
| How to use it | Open the map, search for a keyword or topic, select a time period, and filter results by category or source. |
| Cost | Free. |
| Account required | No account is required for the publicly available map and search functions. |
| Cookies | A Google advertising-related cookie set on the googlesyndication.com domain. |
| Ownership | Not clearly disclosed. |
| Use in Reporting | Useful for discovering emerging stories, identifying geographic clusters, monitoring developing events and generating leads for further verification. |
### What does NewsMap do?
NewsMap presents news stories on an interactive geographical map, allowing you to see where stories are being reported and how reporting is distributed geographically. It provides search and time filters and categories including Conflict/War, OSINT, Politics, Economy, Tech/Science, Health, Environment and Crime/Law.
**The lowdown:** It’s primarily a news discovery and monitoring tool, especially useful for visualising developments geographically.
### How to Use:
**1. Open NewsMap and use the search function to enter a keyword, location, person, organisation or event of interest. You can also navigate to an area of interest on the interactive map.**
**2. Select an appropriate time period, such as Today or Week, and use the category filters to narrow results to areas such as Conflict/War, OSINT, Politics or Crime/Law.**
**3. Examine the mapped stories and underlying sources, then follow the original reporting and independently verify important claims before using them in an investigation or report.**
### Cost
* [x] Free
* [ ] Partially Free
* [ ] Paid
## Data Processing
### Account Required:
* [ ] Yes
* [x] No
### Cookies:
The site uses a Google advertising-related cookie set by googlesyndication.com. It appears to support advertising functionality or associated consent/ad-delivery processes.
### Use in Reporting
NewsMap can be used to:
* Identify emerging stories relating to a particular country, region, person, organisation or event.
* Discover geographically clustered reporting around a developing incident.
* Investigate how an event is being reported across different locations.
* Monitor conflict, political, economic, environmental and crime-related developments.
* Identify potential leads that can be followed up through primary or reputable sources.
* Compare the geographical distribution of reporting during a developing event.
* Identify unusual concentrations of reporting that may warrant further investigation.
* Build an initial timeline by examining when stories appeared and how reporting developed.
* Cross-reference reports discovered through NewsMap with official statements, local media, satellite imagery, social media and other OSINT sources.
* Provide contextual background for investigative reports by showing the wider geographic news environment surrounding an event.
**Note:** NewsMap is an emerging OSINT and geopolitical-monitoring resource rather than an established source but OSINT practitioners have publicly discussed using it to monitor geopolitical developments, identify emerging stories, visualise geographic clusters and generate investigative leads.
| **Capabilities** | **Limitations** |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Interactive world map displaying geographically associated news stories. | It’s an aggregator/discovery tool and does not independently establish whether a reported claim is true. |
| Keyword search for topics such as climate, war and technology. | Search results depend on the sources and data available to the platform. |
| Time-based views including current/day and week-based reporting. | Developing stories can change quickly, meaning results may differ between observations. |
| Statistical views showing categories, top locations and reporting activity by hour. | Category classifications may not accurately represent the importance, reliability or context of an individual story. |
| Can help identify geographic clusters and emerging developments. | A high concentration of stories does not necessarily mean an event is more significant or better verified. |
### Summary
NewsMap’s ability to combine search, time filtering, subject categories and geographical visualisation makes it useful for quickly identifying stories that may otherwise be difficult to spot in a conventional news search.
Its strongest role in the OSINT workflow is discovery and monitoring as you can identify a developing story or geographical pattern, collect the relevant underlying sources, and then move into verification and analysis using independent sources.
### Ownership
Not publicly disclosed.
### Ethical Considerations
* Follow important stories back to their original publisher and assess the reliability of the underlying reporting.
* Avoid assuming that the map location represents the precise location of an incident.
* Record the date and time when information was observed because news feeds are dynamic.
* Be particularly cautious with conflict, casualty, crime and breaking-news claims, where early reporting can be incomplete or incorrect.
* Do not amplify unverified allegations simply because multiple outlets appear to be reporting the same claim; multiple outlets may be repeating the same original source.
### Related Tools:
* Google News
* GDELT
* NewsNow
* [Liveuamap](/osint-tools/liveuamap.md)
* [Monitor the Situation](/osint-tools/monitor-the-situation.md)
#### Sources