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About Curbside News

Curbside News aggregates headlines from 4,451 newsrooms across all 216 US news markets — from the New York Times to your neighborhood weekly. The national edition is rebuilt about every 30 minutes. Local market feeds are cached and refreshed throughout the day.

Why we exist

More than 50 million Americans live in communities with limited or no access to local news. National aggregators cover New York, DC, and LA. We cover Amarillo, Duluth, and Muskogee too.

We believe the city council meeting matters as much as the congressional hearing. Curbside surfaces both — in one clean, fast feed — so you can stay informed about your street and your nation.

How it works

We pull RSS feeds from community newspapers, public radio stations, nonprofit newsrooms, college papers, and national outlets. Our ranking system scores stories by recency, source quality, and geographic relevance — then merges duplicate coverage so you see the story once, not seven times.

Every source is listed on our Sources page — full transparency about where your news comes from.

What makes us different

  • Every market, not just metros. 216 US news markets including rural, tribal, and small-city America.
  • Real newsrooms only. No AI-generated articles. No user-submitted content. Every story comes from a real journalist at a real publication.
  • Coverage merging. When 7 outlets cover the same story, we show you the story once with all 7 sources — not the same headline repeated 7 times.
  • Filed Locally. Our "Filed Locally" section surfaces stories found in one tracked local source — reporting that might otherwise go unnoticed.
  • Source transparency. See every source, its type, and what market it serves. No black-box algorithm.

Who built this

Curbside News is an independent project. We're not owned by a media conglomerate, a hedge fund, or an advertising network. We aggregate the news — we don't create it, rewrite it, or monetize your attention with engagement tricks.

Know a local newsroom we should add? Suggest a source.

For publishers

Curbside News identifies itself as CurbsideNewsBot/1.0 when it fetches feeds. Most sources are RSS or publisher JSON already offered for syndication. Some outlets that dropped RSS are recovered through a homepage-to-RSS bridge so their headlines can appear in the relevant market. We do not use publisher content to train AI models. Every headline links to the original page; the click, the reader, and the ad impression stay with the publisher.

Prefer not to be included? Email [email protected] and we will remove your outlet. You can also suggest a correction to how your outlet is listed. We do not currently treat robots.txt as an automated removal switch.

Connect

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Feedback or a source to suggest? Submit it here or email [email protected].