About ForecastGeo

ForecastGeo takes news headlines and summaries from newsrooms and wire services, extracts the places named in each story, and maps those stories. Markers come from a real report; the map shows the most specific location level the source data supports.

The point is to make it easy to see where the news is coming from, and from that to ask which places the news covers and which it ignores. That question is answered honestly on the Coverage page, built only from the articles on this site.

What the site adds

• A map. A live globe of where stories are happening now.
• Framing comparisons. When several outlets cover the same event, ForecastGeo groups them and compares what each leads with, who it credits, and what it leaves out.
• An audited forecast ledger. A small language model forecasts what might happen next for some stories, every forecast gets a deadline, and the ledger scores each one — including the misses. This is clearly labelled as AI-generated and is not presented as reporting.
• An image audit. A check of whether the photographs outlets attach to their stories actually show the event.

Who runs it

ForecastGeo is a small independent project. Headlines and summaries belong to the newsrooms that published them; ForecastGeo adds the geography, the comparison, and the audit. We don't take story pitches, sell placement in the feed, or accept money in exchange for coverage.