NewshoundYour local news, back in one place
Newshound runs a real news site for your town — or any topic you care about. It finds and connects the real local sources, updates every day, and sends a curated newsletter every week. Every story links to the original reporting. Reading an existing Newshound site is free; running your own is $4.99/mo.
Cancel anytime. No setup fee.
Sound familiar?
Your paper is gone (or a shell of itself).
The reporters left, but the town didn't stop happening. Newshound's agents find the sources that still cover your area — outlets, feeds, civic records — and put them back on one front page, updated daily.
See the live sites →You're tired of doomscrolling for scraps.
A feed decides what you see; a front page you chose doesn't. One site, one weekly email, every story linked to where it was actually reported. Read it in five minutes and get on with your day.
Get the newsletter →You want the alerts without the arguments.
Power outages, school closings, road closures, severe weather — live status pages and email alerts, with no comment section attached. Save a keyword or a commute route and Newshound watches it for you.
See the alerts →From a name to a live site in three steps
Name a town or a topic.
A place, a team, a music scene, an industry — anything.
Newshound finds and connects the sources.
It discovers the real local outlets, feeds, and sites and wires them in — the part that's hours of work by hand.
It updates daily and sends weekly.
Your site refreshes every day; once a week the best stories become a newsletter, each linked to its source. You review, or automate the send.
Alerts that find you first
Every geo community gets live status pages and email alerts — the stuff you actually search for at 11pm:
Power outages
Live status with restoration updates when the utility posts one.
Severe weather
National Weather Service alerts for your area.
School closings
Is school closed tomorrow, answered.
Road closures
Including alerts on commute routes you save.
Police blotter
Recent incidents from published blotters and civic records.
Saved searches
Pick any keyword — a street, a school board, a name — and get an email when it shows up in the news.
Obituary name-watch
A gentle email if a name you're watching appears.
Alerts arrive by email today. See a live example →
It doesn't have to be a town
The same newsroom runs on anything with sources: a band or public figure, a sport, a science, an industry. Name it and Newshound finds who actually covers it, then keeps the site fresh daily — a single narrow topic is $4.99/mo, a broad subject area (think "all of chemistry") is $14.99/mo.
Start a topic site →Simple pricing, no setup fee
| Read any Newshound community (email newsletter included — subscribe) | Free |
| Your own site — town / single topic | $4.99/mo |
| Region / multi-town | $9.99/mo |
| State / multi-state / broad topic | $14.99/mo |
Prefer to support an existing site? Memberships are $60/yr (or $6/mo) — become a member.
Want your town but don't want to run it? Request it free →
Why not just use a feed?
Nextdoor / Facebook groups
Neighbors talking — sometimes useful, often not, never edited. Newshound is the other half: actual reporting, civic records, and live alert data, with no comment section between you and the facts.
Google News / social feeds
They rank stories for engagement across the whole internet. A town of 20,000 doesn't win that auction. Your Newshound site has exactly one job: your place (or your topic), every day.
Newsletter platforms (Ghost, Substack — typically $9–25/mo)
They hand you an empty page and make you find every source yourself. Newshoundhands you a site that's already wired to the news.
Comparison based on publicly listed Ghost(Pro) and Substack pricing. Newshound is not affiliated with either.
Noticias locales, en tu idioma
Newshoundcommunities can publish a Spanish edition of the same site — same sources, same alerts, in Spanish. If your town's paper never covered you in your language, this one can.
Questions, answered
Is the news written by AI?
Newshound aggregates journalism — it doesn't fabricate it. AI agents find the sources, pick the day's best stories, and summarize them, and every story links to the original reporting it came from.
My town isn't on Newshound. Now what?
Two ways: build it yourself in minutes for $4.99/mo (you review everything before it sends), or request it free and our newsroom builds it — usually within a day — with you as Founding Member #1.
What does it cost to read?
Nothing. Community sites and their weekly email newsletters are free. Paying is only for running your own site ($4.99/mo and up) or optionally supporting a community as a member.
What alerts can I set up?
Weather, power-outage, school-closing, and road-closure alerts for your area, plus saved keyword searches, commute-route alerts, and an obituary name-watch. Alerts arrive by email.
Is it available in Spanish?
Yes — the builder is at /build/es-US, and communities can offer a full Spanish edition of their site.
Can I cancel?
Anytime, from your billing page. No setup fee, no contract.
Put your town back on the front page
Name it. Newshound finds the sources, builds the site, and runs it — updated daily, newsletter weekly, every story linked to its source.