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About Signal

See what the media is actually covering.

A daily board of ranked stories, coverage lenses, and day-by-day history, so attention itself becomes readable.

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A daily map of media attention

Every day, coverage forms a temporary hierarchy: some stories surge, others cool, and many split, elevated in one cohort, quiet in another. Homepages bury that pattern. Scroll feeds hide it entirely.

Signal maps daily media attention so you can see what’s rising, fading, and splitting.

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How the board is built

Rank reflects cross-outlet attention and how quickly it’s changing across outlets and feeds we track. The board updates throughout the day as new snapshots land.

Open any story to see the matched coverage behind it.

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How to read the board

Three surfaces. Same language every day.

  1. 01

    Board

    Stories ranked by cross-outlet attention today. Movement versus yesterday shows what’s rising, fading, or holding.

  2. 02

    Lenses

    Filter by category, bias, or outlet type. See which stories a cohort elevates, ignores, or frames differently.

  3. 03

    Days

    Step back through the cycle. Free unlocks seven days of history; Pro extends to thirty.

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Where Signal is going

Instruments on the roadmap, not on the board yet.

  • Predicted developments

    Coming soon. Forecasts for where a story may go next, scored against the developments that actually arrive.

  • Narrative change over time

    Coming soon. Visualizations of how the tone of coverage shifts day to day, broken out per source.

  • Watch lists

    Coming soon. Follow the stories and sources you care about without rebuilding the board by hand.

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Built for people who track narrative

Signal is for independent journalists and anyone tired of mistaking one homepage for the whole story. If you already compare outlets by hand, Signal turns that practice into a daily board.

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Made by Protovision

Signal is built by Protovision. We make tools for reading media systems with less noise and more structure.

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Today’s media attention visualized.

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Signal Checker

Paste a link to see whether newsrooms in Signal’s recent coverage are reporting the same story — or paste a headline/caption if you don’t have a URL.