Ground

aid: ground
name: Ground
description: Ground News is a news aggregation platform, built by Snapwise Inc. and backed by Techstars, that helps readers
  see every side of every story. It gathers coverage of each news event from across the political spectrum and pairs every
  story with media bias ratings, factuality assessments, and source-ownership transparency. Signature features include the
  Blindspot Feed that surfaces stories disproportionately covered by the left or right, a per-story bias-distribution bar,
  local news customization, daily briefing newsletters, browser extensions, and iOS/Android apps. Ground News does not currently
  publish a public developer API, developer portal, or API documentation, and its one live machine surface, api.ground.news,
  is the private backend of its own apps. The single integration point it does publish is an unauthenticated embeddable iframe
  story widget. This profile captures that widget, the company's public web and commercial surface, the contract-discovery
  probe record, and its domain-security posture.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ground/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- techstars
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-08-13'
image: https://groundnews.b-cdn.net/assets/logo4/GN_Square.png
tags:
- Company
- News
- Media
- Media Bias
- News Aggregation
- Journalism
- Media Monitoring
- Consumer Apps
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://ground.news/
- type: About
  url: https://ground.news/about
- type: Blog
  url: https://ground.news/blog
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://ground.news/blog/rss
- type: Careers
  url: https://ground.news/careers
- type: Pricing
  url: https://ground.news/subscribe
- type: SignUp
  url: https://ground.news/login
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://ground.news/terms-and-conditions
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://ground.news/privacy-policy
- type: Support
  url: https://ground.news/contact-us
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://help.ground.news
- type: FAQ
  url: https://ground.news/frequently-asked-questions
- type: Newsletter
  url: https://ground.news/newsletters/daily-ground
- type: iOSApp
  url: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1324203419
- type: AndroidApp
  url: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.checkitt
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/ground-domain-security.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/ground-components.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/ground-plans-pricing.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/ground-packages.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/ground-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-13'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 6
  pass: local-v1
  note: 'Full STEP 0b contract discovery re-run across ground.news, api.ground.news, about.ground.news and help.ground.news.
    No published contract of any kind. NO WellKnown, SecurityTxt, RateLimits or SDKs pointer is emitted: every well-known
    path 404s, no rate-limit header exists on any callable surface, and no client library exists in any registry — those probe
    files are retained as evidence of absence, not advertised as served surfaces. One real find: Ground News publishes an
    embeddable iframe story widget at ground.news/widget/story, captured in components/.'
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: no-developer-program
  detail: 'Ground News ships only a consumer news app: its single live machine surface, api.ground.news, is the private Express
    backend of that app and answers HTTP 418 "I''m a Teapot" to every path including the root, while developer., developers.,
    docs., status. and trust.ground.news do not resolve at all and every well-known, OpenAPI and agent-card path on the four
    hosts it does serve returns 404 — the only third-party integration point it publishes is a single unauthenticated iframe
    story widget.'
  evidence:
  - url: https://api.ground.news/openapi.json
    status: 418
  - url: https://api.ground.news/
    status: 418
  - url: https://ground.news/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://ground.news/graphql
    status: 404
  - url: https://ground.news/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://ground.news/.well-known/agent.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://ground.news/llms.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://about.ground.news/.well-known/security.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://help.ground.news/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://api.github.com/orgs/groundnews
    status: 404
  - url: https://ground.news/widget/story?offset=1
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-08-13'