Introducing News-V: Five-Dimension Article Scoring

Government news is noisy. Thousands of press releases, policy updates, and regulatory notices are published every day across 100+ countries. Not all of it matters equally — and ranking by publish date alone misses the signal.

News-V is our answer. Every article that enters the Newsfork pipeline receives a composite score from 1.0 to 10.0, computed across five weighted dimensions:

Timeliness (20%) — How recently was the article published relative to the event it describes?

Impact (30%) — What is the scale of affected population or consequence?

Relevance (20%) — How well does the topic align with the target audience or query context?

Urgency (15%) — Does the article require time-sensitive action?

Source authority (15%) — What is the credibility of the publishing domain?

Category-specific weight overrides apply for breaking news, policy announcements, economic data, and health alerts. A breaking health advisory from a ministry of health scores differently than a routine directory update.

News-V scores are available on every article returned by the REST API and MCP tools. Pro and Enterprise plans include full scoring metadata; Free tier includes composite scores on keyword search results.

We built News-V on Cloudflare Workers AI with deterministic post-processing — same input, same score, every time. No black-box randomness in production pipelines.