How to use the SpeakArray news reader

A practical guide to dates, headlines, categories, search and refresh status so you can understand what the live feed does—and does not—show.

RSS Date and Added are different

RSS Date is the timestamp supplied by a publisher's RSS or Atom feed. Added is when SpeakArray recorded that entry. An older article imported today can therefore have an old RSS Date and a recent Added date. Sorting by Added surfaces newly discovered entries, not necessarily stories published today.

Find the latest headlines

Open the live reader and select Latest added to return to page one, clear filters and sort by discovery time. Alternatively, sort by RSS Date to prioritize articles with the newest source-provided publication dates. Missing RSS dates are displayed as unknown rather than guessed.

Search and time filters

The search field matches words in titles, source names and category labels. All search terms must appear, but their order does not matter. Time filters such as Last 24 hours apply to the date an article was added to SpeakArray, not when it was originally published. Search and filtering work within the currently retained live collection, not a complete historical archive of every feed.

What the NEW badge means

NEW means the headline was added during the most recently completed refresh cycle. It is not a claim that the event just happened. A feed might republish an old headline, and a backfilled article can be marked NEW when first discovered.

Why the same story may have multiple categories

A feed can be assigned to more than one category. SpeakArray avoids fetching a duplicate feed URL more than once per refresh, then combines the categories associated with an article where possible. Category labels are organizational hints, not a guarantee that a story has been manually reviewed.

Why the list is limited

SpeakArray currently retains a limited rolling collection (up to 500 article records) to control storage and processing costs. Older entries rotate out as new ones arrive. The list is not a permanent news archive, and the same story can appear on multiple websites under different URLs.

Exports and attribution

Use the collapsed Export headlines section to download the current view or a small page range as HTML files. Every headline links to the original publisher. For questions about source selection, see the source policy; for how categorization and deduplication work, see How it works.