●Monitor

NEWS layer · news

What it answers

Every notable headline of the past few hours projected onto its geography: a dot colored by importance on the country of origin, and a thin arc drawn to each country named in the title. A global read of who is talking about whom, in real time.

When to open it

At the open: see in one shot where the talking is, and above all in which direction (who mentions whom).
When an asset moves with nothing visible in the Feed: the geographic projection sometimes surfaces a secondary hotspot that a chronological stream buries.
To test a narrative wave (one country turning up everywhere inside the same slot) against operational reality: cross-check with MIL, AIS, SEIS.

Anatomy

Switch on NEWS in the layer grid at top right. Two objects appear:

Dots on each headline's country of origin, colored by importance.
Arcs from the country of origin to each country named in the title. One arc aggregates every headline sharing the same from → to pair inside the window.

The filters live in the filter panel at bottom left: time window and importance chips.

How to read it

Element	How to read it
Importance	Five colored chips: C (critical) · H (high) · M (medium) · L (low) · I (info). Multi-select. A dimmed chip means the filter is on for the others.
Window	1 hour / 6 hours / 12 hours / 24 hours. The whole projection is redrawn over that window.
Clock at the bottom	How long since the last refresh (`Ns ago`, `Nm ago`).

The dots on the map

Element	How to read it
Color	CRITICAL · HIGH · MEDIUM · LOW · INFO.
Position	The centroid of the headline's country of origin.

The arcs on the map

One arc per origin → country mentioned pair. A pair aggregates every headline sharing that direction over the window.

Element	How to read it
Color	red = average importance ≥ 2.5, orange = ≥ 1.5, green below that.
Thickness	Reflects how many articles are aggregated over the window.
Direction	From the origin toward the country mentioned.

The country card on hover / click

With NEWS on, hovering or clicking a country opens its news card in the top-right corner: the headlines in the window that concern that country, ranked by importance then recency. Covered in the country card.

An arc's info card (click an arc)

Block	How to read it
Header	`Origin → Destination`. On the right: the number of articles aggregated.
Article list	Up to five headlines from that pair, ranked by importance and recency — importance dot, title, source, relative timestamp. Below the list: `+N more` when more remain.

Clicking an arc card opens News in a new tab.

Controls

Gesture	Effect
NEWS toggle in the grid at top right	Turns the layer on or off.
Importance chips	Multi-select over the levels shown.
Window	Redraws the projection over 1H / 6H / 12H / 24H.
Hover or click a country	Opens that country's news card in the top-right corner.
Click an arc	Opens the arc's info card. With Fly on, the camera recenters.
Click the arc card	Opens News in a new tab.

The layer refreshes automatically every 30 seconds.

Cross-check with other Hawkline features

For the full read of a story cluster — sources, breaking, source mix: News. The Feed gives you the compact version without leaving Monitor.
Arcs converging on one country that has no story of its own: TDI, to see whether GDELT or other streams are off baseline at the same time.
A headline over an active ZONE: the article may well be feeding the desk's signal count.

Keep in mind

Importance isn't truth. A CRITICAL dot says the headline is an editorial priority at its source. The more credible the source (higher tier) and the more confirmed the cluster, the more the story holds — the detailed read goes through News.
Geolocation is country-level. No city, no precise coordinates. Several articles from the same country stack on the same centroid — clicking through to the country card is the right entry point when an area is crowded.

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