Sightline Daily Newsfeeds

Among other services, we offer a customizable newsfeed service that delivers hand-picked headlines to the websites of Northwest organizations. With our newsfeed service, we provide you with the means to display Sightline Daily headlines on your own website, customized by the topics and regions you want – all delivered to your website by 8:30 every weekday morning.

Sightline Daily newsfeeds are a great way to keep your site visitors up-to-date with the latest news on the specific topics and regions important to your audience.

How does it work?

How it works is simple. You tell us the parameters you’d like for your feed (e.g. topic/region, number of stories) and we configure a feed using RSS and provide you (and your site developers) with an RSS URL that they can add to your site. This feed pulls in the most recent stories from Sightline Daily, set for the topic and region you want. (We also ask that you include a sentence: “News provided by Sightline Daily,” or our logo, with a link.)

We customize the URL for your headlines – you format it for your site.

What kinds of feeds are available?

Sightline Daily indexes its news headlines by 30 regions and topics that you can use to customize your feed--from climate change to green business, Alaska to California. The complete list can be found at http://daily.sightline.org/all-topics. You decide the intersection of topics and regions for your feed. You can also select how many stories you want to appear on your site.

For example, here are the most recent stories for “Energy” and “Washington”: http://daily.sightline.org/rss/region/washington/topic/energy

Or if you wanted all stories related to Food and Farms: http://daily.sightline.org/rss/topic/food_farms

We read over 40 papers; our sources include many national papers, like the New York Times and the Washington Post; all the major Northwest Dailies, from the Seattle Times to the Missoulan; local papers like the Eugene Register Guard; and a handful of other sources, from the Portland Business Journal to BC’s Tyee.

What are some examples of Sightline Daily newsfeeds?

Here are a few websites that currently run Sightline Daily newsfeeds:

- Portland’s New Seasons Market (bottom left corner): http://www.newseasonsmarket.com/
- Seattle Climate Action Now (bottom of page): http://www.seattlecan.org/news.html

How much does it cost?

Sightline Daily newsfeeds are a free service. If you are able, we ask you help support Sightline Daily by making a donation. After all, we still rely on live news editors getting up every morning to find the day's best news -- and we can't do it without your support!

How do I get a newsfeed for my site?

Contact Eric Hess (erich (at) sightline.org), Sightline communications associate, with questions or requests for subscriptions. We’ll just need the topics, regions, and number of stories you’re interested in to get the ball rolling. We should be able to help you set up your feed quickly.