NewsNerd
About

NewsNerd

News questions, answered with cited reporting.

About

NewsNerd is an LLM-powered research assistant that searches selected publishers and drafts an answer from the articles it reads. Citations show which articles were used, but they do not by themselves prove every claim. Open Article Analysis and the original publisher page to check an important claim.

How it works

You ask a question. The app builds search queries, collects recent articles from selected publishers, screens them for relevance, and drafts a cited answer from the material it could read. Publisher labels come from an internal catalog; readership estimates are a static CSV snapshot, not live audience data. See the source catalog and methods.

What you can tune

  • Source language.
  • Factuality floor (Recommended / Strict / Custom matrix).
  • Audience size and recency window.
  • Presentation language for the final answer.

The team

Professor Dennis Shasha

Professor Dennis Shasha

Department of Computer Science
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
New York University

Harsh Kashyap

Department of Computer Science
Computer Science and Engineering
Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology

Vedant Pradhan

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Computer Engineering
Tandon School of Engineering
New York University