Sources & methodology
How Imago News works
Imago News is an independent news aggregator that reads public RSS feeds from major news organizations and gathers the latest most-cited stories, letting users see an event through multiple sources all at once.
Reading a story
Pick a topic from the top of the page, or stay on “Top stories” for all stories in a single list. Stories covered by the most outlets are listed first. The lead story sits full-width at the top, the rest follow underneath it, and you read by scrolling.
On Top stories the lead slot also cycles, bringing each topic’s biggest story through it in turn. The pagination dots underneath tell you where the cycle is and the arrows on either side allow you to move it a step in either direction, while on a touchscreen you can swipe it. It pauses whenever you are reading a story’s sources, and it does not run for anyone whose system asks for reduced motion.
Open any story to see its sources: every outlet covering it, and the headline each one ran. Tap a source to read it in full at the publisher. Close the sources again to carry on down the list.
Reading from the publisher
If you tap a source, you leave Imago News to visit the outlet that wrote the story.
You may get hit with a cookie dialog, which belongs to the outlet, not to Imago. Many outlets require accepting cookies to read their articles. This isn’t a paywall. While European outlets ask most often, the habit has spread outside the European Union.
Every outlet here was chosen because its articles are usually open to the public without a subscription. However, no publisher is bound by this; thus, any of them could put up a wall at any given time. Nonetheless, Imago News is designed to give the public articles with easy access.
Your own reading experience
You can tailor your reading by logging in to follow only the topics you would like by clicking on the follow button with a star. You can also click on the star next to an outlet’s name in the list of a story’s sources to follow all articles from that particular outlet. For You then ranks your stories by what you follow. If you click “Save” at the end of a story’s sources, that cluster of stories will remain reachable even after the site updates with new news stories throughout the day.
If you turn on notifications, Imago News can alert you in your browser or on your home-screen app when new coverage appears in a topic or from an outlet you follow. Notifications are off until you enable them, and you can turn them off again at any time.
By default, nothing is retained when logged out. When signed in, your preferences are saved so you can access your tailored feed across devices. Click “Privacy” below for details.
Summaries
Each story’s headline and summary are drafted with the assistance of a language model and pulled directly from the source headlines themselves. They will not contain a detail that is not stated in the article source titles.
Images
Story images are produced from live articles within the news feed.
Reader choice
Imago News does not score outlets for bias or tell readers what to believe about an article. Imago shows what is being covered, where coverage overlaps, and lists original sources that are publicly accessible to allow readers to “see the full picture.”