Glad you're here.

Newsreel is a place to actually understand the news. It's built around verified journalists you can trust, not influencers and not algorithms. The feed looks like a social app, but the people writing in it are real reporters, real editors, real experts. We want the next generation to walk away with a sharper sense of the world, and their place in it.

A mix of things, all aligned. Pre-seed investors who believe in a verified-journalist network, led by American Public Media Group, our biggest investor to date. Libraries and schools across the country that pay to give their patrons and students access. And sponsors like the ones in this room, who help us reach a generation the news has been losing for a decade.

We're also starting to play with B2C subscriptions and AI licensing, becoming the first platform in the world to share AI revenue with independent journalists.

The town square for the next generation. A place to understand the world, and your place in it.

That sounds big. It is. But the path is simple. Build the verified network. Earn the trust. Give people a home for the news that doesn't feel cooked.

We're raising a $1 million pre-seed round to lock in our verified-journalist network, ship the next version of the app, and grow the audience past 100,000. American Public Media Group is our biggest investor to date, alongside angels who've spent careers in journalism, tech, and consumer media.

If that's interesting, find Jack tonight or email [email protected]. Happy to send the memo.

Newsreel was founded by Jack Brewster, an award-winning journalist who spent years covering AI's impact on the information ecosystem at Forbes and NewsGuard. The team is small and growing: Nadya Yeh, Eliza Haverstock, Brijesh Tiwari, and Jon Ponciano. Journalists, engineers, and designers working out of New York and remote.

If you want to know more, find one of us tonight. Jack's the one in the apron.