About Headline Finder
Good reporting builds on
what came before.
We build public-record reporting tools for journalists—freelance reporters, independent publishers and newsroom teams.
Our focus is simple: help you find what changed, understand its history and keep the evidence close as you pursue the story.
Why we exist
The records are scattered.
The story is connected.
A decision appears on an agency website. Its background is buried in an earlier document. The follow-up arrives months—or years—later.
Connecting those pieces takes work. When you cover several beats, move between assignments or return to a story after a long gap, that background can be hard to recover.
Headline Finder brings developments and their earlier records together, so you have a clearer starting point for the reporting that follows.
That continuity matters whether you’re building your own body of reporting or sharing the work with others.
What guides us
Useful evidence. Lasting context.
Your judgment.
Keep the source within reach.
A lead should give you somewhere to look. The source passage and earlier records help you examine what changed and decide what to ask next.
Make past reporting useful again.
Returning to a story should not mean starting from scratch. Connected records help you recover the background for your own follow-up or a shared assignment.
Leave the reporting decisions to you.
You choose what deserves attention, which questions to pursue and how to tell the story. The software helps you work with the records behind those decisions.
Put it to work
Start with a story you want to follow.
Explore how a new development connects to earlier records—and the next reporting question.