Spotlight News vs Aebly Media

Spotlight puts the stories you actually care about—local, authentic, and often overlooked—at the center of your news feed. With access to college newspapers, local newsrooms, and top national outlets, Spotlight delivers journalism you won’t find anywhere else. Built entirely around your interests, Spotlight cuts out the noise. No clickbait. No paywalls. Just meaningful updates on the people, places, and ideas that matter to you. It’s time for a smarter way to stay informed. Welcome to Spotlight. Spotlight is a free, easy-to-use app with features including: • Access to college newsroom reporting • Local newspaper coverage tailored to you • The latest stories from national sources • A personalized feed built around your topics that you pick Spotlight also uses your location to bring you news from nearby publishers. You can control this feature in your app settings. • Terms of use: https://spotlightnews.us/terms

A digital newspaper you can actually finish. Two editions a day, AM and PM, with the stories that matter and every side laid out. Vote on how you feel about each one, then crumple your votes into paper balls and take your shot. YOUR AM AND PM EDITIONS The Morning Edition lands at 7 a.m. and the Evening Edition at 7 p.m., in your time zone. Each is a short run of stories with big pictures and one clear line apiece, and then it ends. No endless feed. Reach the last page and you're caught up. Missed the morning? The evening edition carries along what you didn't get to. Finish editions in a row to build your streak. VOTE ON HOW YOU FEEL Every story ends with one question about what's really going on. Swipe right if you're for it, left if you're against, and see how other readers split. Want the whole picture first? Open the story for the facts, the case each side makes, and the outlets behind it. Your vote is always optional. Reading both sides is the point. Your answers shape your Civic Compass, a map of where you stand built from how you actually vote. Every edition closes on the Daily Pulse: one question for everyone, with the top comments from each side once you've voted. PAPER TOSS WITH YOUR VOTES Every story you vote on gets crumpled into a paper ball, and the Daily Pulse adds a gold one. When the edition closes, flick them at the hoop over the newsroom wastebasket. One throw per vote, no do-overs, and from the second ball on, mind the breeze. The more you vote, the more shots you get. THE NEWSROOM Exclusives from Aebly's own journalists, dealt as a deck. Swipe right to read a piece and it lands in your finished bin, or left to toss it into the recycling. Every piece you read earns another throw. STATE BY STATE All fifty states on one map. Tap a state to see what happened there in the last day, with links to the original reporting and, where we have one, a video brief from that state's anchor. A state turns gold once you've read it. CATCH UP Yesterday, retold as a short story: the anchor's recap, the five stories that mattered, and everything that moved. THREADS Follow a story as it develops. Every chapter sits on a dated timeline with the conversation right on it, and new chapters come to you. CIVICS Vote on real bills, executive orders and Supreme Court rulings after reading both sides. See who represents you and who's running in your district, and compare the President's approval with every president since Truman. THE COLOSSEUM Challenge a friend to a live video debate on the day's question or one you write. Your friends pull up a seat, comment, and pick a side. WITNESS See what people are reporting near you on a live map, and report what you saw with a photo or clip. Reports are anonymous by design, and at 10 upvotes an investigative journalist takes the case. AND MORE · Home Screen widgets for the Daily Pulse, your compass and the newsroom · Daily games, including Deep State and Cancel Hangman · Search across stories, threads, legislation, debates and friends · The whole app in English or Spanish, in light or dark WHERE WE STAND Aebly Media is independent and nonpartisan. Every side gets the same format and the same sourcing, and we don't endorse candidates or parties. Edition stories are summarized with AI from the outlets covering them, and every source is linked. Exclusives are written by our own journalists. Results in the app are our readers' own votes, not scientific polling. Aebly Media is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or representing any government entity, and votes in the app have no effect on any official legislation, election or government action. Bills, executive orders and court rulings come from official records at Congress.gov, the Federal Register and SupremeCourt.gov, linked in the app. Comfort in your convictions.