SBH News
International politics digital news — a real-time, map-based breaking news platform.
Overview
SBH News (Sensor Studio) is an international-affairs intelligence and digital news platform built around a live, map-first newsroom. It brings reporting, geospatial events, market signals, country risk, AI-assisted research, and participatory learning into one product. The core split-screen workspace lets readers move directly between a breaking-news feed and the places where events are unfolding. Its editorial principle is "we do not impose judgment": reporting strips out subjective framing and partisan language, and pairs plain facts with verified coordinates and source data so readers can assess events themselves.
Highlights
- • Live newsroom — breaking ticker, source/category filters, featured stories, and continuously refreshed feeds
- • Geospatial intelligence — MapLibre globe, marker clustering, time windows, and conflict/diplomacy/economy/disaster layers
- • Operational overlays — earthquakes, wildfires, weather, travel alerts, chokepoints, submarine cables, and energy infrastructure
- • AI editorial pipeline — multi-source ingestion, summarization, review, research reports, and PDF generation
- • Market and country intelligence — market ticker, heatmaps, economic calendar, and country-risk indicators
- • Member engagement — Basic/Premium subscriptions, quizzes, XP, rankings, achievements, and simulations
Inside the product
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Live map-first newsroom
A single operational view combines the interactive world map, geolocated events, real-time headlines, breaking alerts, and a live market ticker.
Structured article experience
Articles preserve source attribution, category and location context, concise summaries, and save, share, and reporting actions in a focused reading layout.
Feature deep-dive
Map & live events
- • Six-category pin colour system — conflict/military, diplomacy, economy/finance, disaster, sports, and general
- • Twelve basemap themes with per-user favourites for one-click switching
- • 3D globe and terrain modes, event clustering, and movement route lines
- • Weather, earthquake (USGS), wildfire (NASA FIRMS), travel-alert, night-lights, maritime chokepoint, and submarine-cable layers
- • Live air-raid alert overlay wired to official Ukrainian data APIs
News feed & OSINT
- • Pinned top-six headlines and follow-up stories threaded by event
- • Source, category, and breaking filters with latest / most-viewed / most-saved sorting
- • View-count windows (24 hours, 3 days, 1 week) plus live and daily trend rankings
- • Breaking ticker for the last four hours and a market ticker refreshing major indices every minute
- • Split workspace at 60% map / 40% feed, adjustable by drag
Markets & economic data
- • Market-cap treemap heatmap refreshing every 30 seconds during trading hours, viewable by country and sector
- • Policy rates, consumer prices, US Treasury yields, dollar index, VIX, commodities, and live FX
- • Earnings calendar merged with rate decisions, FOMC, and employment releases, normalised to Korean time
- • LME and KOMIS industrial and critical-mineral prices with automated AI trend briefings
- • Polymarket integration — sharp probability swings trigger automatic article generation
Affairs intelligence
- • CFR-backed global conflict map classified as active fighting, escalating tension, sporadic clashes, or ceasefire
- • Region-by-region breakdown of belligerents and armed groups with related coverage and conflict duration
- • Four-tier Korean foreign-ministry travel advisories with sub-national alert-zone lookup
- • Sovereign credit ratings, country risk premium (CRP), and equity risk premium (ERP) across five risk bands
- • Modern-history timeline linking pivotal events since 1914 to their locations on the map
AI editorial pipeline
- • Multi-source ingestion every 15 minutes, then Claude handles translation, classification, urgency scoring, and location extraction
- • Editorial workflow running AI review, automatic publishing, and duplicate archiving
- • On-demand PDF research reports covering conflict, economy, diplomacy, and technology
- • Articles without cover art get a server-rendered OG thumbnail centred on their coordinates, using satellite imagery and national borders
- • Backup cron fills coverage gaps for countries with no recent reporting
Engagement & community
- • Current-affairs quizzes with difficulty-scaled XP, streaks, leaderboards, and titles
- • Four daily asset up/down predictions settled automatically against real prices
- • Open-news posting by selected contributors, published straight into the feed and onto map coordinates
- • YouTube-linked affairs simulations with victory-side prediction voting
- • Emoji reactions, comments, bookmarks, and a personalised feed based on followed topics
Platform capabilities
- • Multi-source collection from RSS, GDELT, Naver, Telegram, YouTube, and disaster/travel data feeds with deduplication and scheduled ingestion
- • Claude-assisted classification, summarization, fact review, editorial approval, and automatic publishing workflows
- • MapLibre GL visualization with clustered events, selectable countries, multiple basemap themes, 3D globe mode, heatmaps, and route lines
- • Research and content operations spanning reports, generated PDFs, newsletters, dynamic map-based OG images, and an internal role-based CMS
- • Next.js 16 and React 19 application backed by Neon PostgreSQL, object storage, Vercel serverless jobs, analytics, and operational monitoring
- • Stripe-powered subscription lifecycle with gated intelligence features and self-service customer management
- • Editorial guidelines — no subjective adjectives or gossip-driven stories, [Exclusive] tags only on pre-approved pieces, and political coverage separated into the General category so it never dilutes the affairs feed
- • Breaking status is reserved for events within one to two hours of occurrence, and factual corrections are published with an explicit [Correction] note
- • Security guidelines — precise coordinates for undisclosed military bases, nuclear plants, and key government facilities are never exposed, even when available on open-source maps
- • Open-news quality control — no copy-paste submissions, per-account daily posting limits and upload cooldowns, and revocation of posting rights on repeated violations
See global events as they unfold
Open SBH News to explore the live world map, breaking-news feed, and international-affairs intelligence experience.