More context. Fewer recycled headlines.

Treat news retrieval as discovery

A news API can help find documents, but the returned headline does not automatically become a verified fact. Decide the feed’s purpose before writing a query: protocol releases, market reporting, issuer disclosures, security developments, or another editorial category.

The complete field note references the NewsAPI Everything documentation for a concrete retrieval interface. The provenance and editorial workflow described here is our suggested design, not a promise of complete or real-time coverage.

Preserve the original source

Store the publisher, original location, title, available author, and publication time. Keep the discovery provider as a separate field. A reader should be able to distinguish the organization that published the reporting from the service through which your application found it.

Do not invent authors or credentials to fill missing metadata. If the source becomes unavailable, preserve the issue in the record rather than presenting a local summary as independent reporting.

Publication time is not retrieval time

A story discovered today may describe an older event. Keep publication, discovery, and observed correction times separate. Refreshing a cache should not make old reporting appear newly published.

Use an explicit policy for ordering the feed. Readers should know whether they are seeing the newest publication or the newest addition to your research collection.

Group repetition without inventing corroboration

Deduplicate exact repeats and distinguish syndicated copies from independent reports about the same event. Preserve each publisher’s document in an event cluster. Avoid merging unrelated developments merely because they share an asset name and a date.

Resolve ambiguous symbols with context. Keep uncertain matches in a review state and record the matching method. The API identity guide explains why stable entities matter across datasets.

Interpretation needs its own label

Preserve attribution and uncertainty in summaries. A report that someone made a claim is not equivalent to proving the claim. A positive tone is not a prediction that an asset will rise. Treat sentiment as an optional interpretation, not a trading instruction.

Review content-use permissions before displaying full text, substantial excerpts, or images. A metadata-based card should remain useful without assuming unrestricted republication rights.

Continue with the full news field note below. The site’s own Field Notes blog is a separate collection of original educational guides, not a live news aggregation service.