THE BRIEFING.

A web tool to help users become more conscious consumers of media

It's an interesting time in journalism. With news and social media available at our fingertips, it's easy to read and share stories, but some stories are misleading, created with sensationalist, dishonest, and completely fabricated information. The Briefing takes an article and runs a comparative analysis on the same story from major news sources to provide unique insights into how the article is portrayed in the media. This tool is meant to help you make more informed opinions of the articles you read.

The Briefing was developed utilizing React-Redux, Express, Firestore, Node.js, D3, IBM Watson, News API, Twitter API, Semantic UI React, and Photoshop.

Here's what's happening under the hood:

A user can paste in an article URL to begin the analysis

Or utilize our Chrome extension to speed up the process

The analysis dashboard:
A user can switch between single/aggregate tabs, interact with the charts, and scroll through related tweets

The analysis dashboard:
Users can hover over the question marks to learn more about the charts

The analysis dashboard:
At the bottom, the user can view related articles and see their analysis

Or in case the user doesn't have an article in mind, they can view an interactive dashboard of today’s briefing with top stories from around the country on the main page