Webz News API Unveils Newsroom: Filter Newsrooms Trusted Feeds

What’s new?

We’re excited to introduce our latest News API feature designed to enhance trust and credibility in news data: a new filter that allows you to access content directly from the newsroom sections of the top 5,000 traded companies.

Our new trust.source.type attribute includes the following values:

• trust.source.type:newsroom – News articles from newsroom and press releases  sources
  
  
• trust.source.type:gov_news – News articles from global government sites – learn more
  
  
• trust.source.type:local_news – News articles from sites related to specific geographical areas (e.g cities, regiones, counties) – learn more 

Examples:

• Looking to assess articles related to top 5K traded companies?
  Include trust.source.type:newsroom in your API queries
  

By integrating this functionality, we provide more control and transparency over the data your solution relies on to generate accurate insights.

Why this matters for finance, risk and media intelligence gathering

Using news from the newsroom and press release pages of top companies is highly valuable for risk and media intelligence gathering for several key reasons:

Risk intelligence software providers

Risk intelligence platforms rely on data to detect events like:

• Corporate scandals
• Legal or regulatory issues
• Financial instability
• Leadership changes
• Operational disruptions

Newsroom and press release content provides early, accurate signals of such events, directly from the source. This ensures the software isn’t flagging risks based on speculation or low-quality media, but on verifiable, actionable information.

Media intelligence software companies

For Media intelligence companies, integrating news from the press release and newsroom pages:

• Enhances data quality and trust
• Provides essential context for sentiment, brand, and media impact analysis
• Reduces content noise and improves classification accuracy
• Enables faster, smarter insights for crisis and reputation management
• Meets client expectations for reliability, transparency, and value

It transforms media monitoring from a reactive tool into a strategic intelligence platform that delivers deeper, more dependable insights.

Financial monitoring software providers

For Financial monitoring providers, integrating news from the newsrooms and press releases is a game-changer. It delivers early, accurate, and reliable insights that are essential for market analysis, risk management, and informed decision-making.

How to get started

For existing customers

You can immediately start using Newsroom tags by adding the trust.source.type:newsroom filter to your API queries. Check our documentation for implementation details.

Not a customer yet?

If you’re looking for data you can trust to drive reliable insights, get in touch with us for a demo. Our dedicated data expert team is ready to help you get started and optimize our data for your specific use case.

The introduction of Trust Tags marks a significant step in our mission to help intelligence solution providers get the data they need to deliver reliable insights, amid the growing threat of misinformation, biased reporting, and fake news – at scale. Stay tuned as we expand our Trust field with more classifications in the coming months!