NewsMCP — Coverage Check

What does NewsMCP Coverage Check do?

NewsMCP Coverage Check answers "is this real?" It reports how many independent newsrooms carried a claim — outlets that reported it themselves — separately from the number of domains that merely reprinted it. A story on 200 domains from 3 newsrooms is one story syndicated, not 200 confirmations. Learn more at newsmcp.com.

Because clustering can split one story across languages, the report totals the likely variants and presents that as an upper bound, listing what was combined so you can verify it is really one story.

Why use it?

• Verify virality vs. reality — distinguish independent corroboration from syndication.
• Fact-checking workflows — plug into Make, n8n, or Zapier to score claims automatically.
• Media monitoring — measure how far a announcement actually travelled.

How to use it

1. Enter the Claim phrased the way a headline would put it (matching is literal, not semantic — "atomic arsenal" will not find "nuclear weapons" stories).
2. Optionally adjust Days back (default 14).
3. Run. The coverage report lands in the dataset as a single item.

Output

A single dataset item:

{
    "matched": true,
    "total_matching_stories": 21,
    "anchor_newsrooms": 835,
    "combined_newsrooms_upper_bound": 879,
    "variants": [
        {
            "event_id": "evt_68a39482537d58170c374a0ec880684b",
            "headline": "Cargo Plane Crashes at Miami Airport",
            "newsrooms": 835,
            "reports": 1205
        }
    ],
    "notes": []
}

Pricing

Priced to be effectively free — one tiny per-item fee per run.

Related Actors

• news — search live story events.
• get-story — full detail of one story, including its complete source list.
• newsmcp-server — the same data as an MCP server for AI agents.

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