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Newsrooms and reporters

A map and a feed of what other outlets, emergency services and official data report, to spot developments early and jump to the originals.

What you get

• Alerts grouped by incident: reports of the same event from many outlets become one alert with all its sources listed.
• Atom feeds per city and country and a global feed, and a JSON API with a since filter.
• The confidence score shows how many independent outlets and official sources agree.

How to start

• Subscribe to the feed of the city or country you cover, or poll /api/v1/events?since=....
• Open the source links of an alert and verify with your own reporting before publishing.

Limits

• alerts.live is a lead, not a source to quote as fact. If you reuse data, cite "alerts.live" with the alert page URL and the original source.
• alerts.live is descriptive and informational. It is not an official source, not an emergency service and gives no safety score for any place.
• Alerts are detected automatically in public sources and can be wrong or late. Each one shows its sources and a confidence score so you can judge it; see the methodology.
• Absence of alerts does not mean absence of events. Coverage depends on what public sources publish.

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