A news alert platform that replaced the daily manual news search
We built a platform that automatically gathers keyword news that used to be searched and picked out by hand, and notifies the person in charge immediately via KakaoTalk and email.
How news is checked
Before
Manually searched by the person in charge
After
Automatic alert the moment it happens
Background
Topics directly tied to the institution’s work move first through news. The person in charge had to search every day to check whether relevant reports had appeared, pick them out, and share them internally — a repeating task.
What we saw on site
The problem wasn’t the search itself — it was what got missed. Because a person does this work, the checking cycle is tied to working hours, and reports that came out between checks are only found the next day. By then, the time to respond had sometimes already passed.
The problem we defined
Automating collection alone wasn’t enough. If things are just gathered and left, someone eventually has to come back and check them, and the checking-cycle problem stays exactly as it was. The scope of the problem included notifying first even when no one goes to look.
This was not the first structure we built
A structure that gathers news by keyword and sends it to KakaoTalk had been built and operated before this project. That means we started knowing what breaks: collection silently stopping, the same article being sent twice, and alerts coming so often that people start ignoring them.
Above is an alert we operated in 2024.
What we built
- Automatic collection based on keyword sets — register keyword bundles tuned to the institution’s work, and it keeps collecting reports on those topics
- Real-time alerts — when a new report is caught, it is delivered immediately via KakaoTalk and email. Alert groups can be divided so it reaches only the people who need it
- Dashboard — the daily collection trend per keyword, keyword share, top sources, and the recent collection list sit on one screen so you can see with your own eyes whether collection is running properly
Result
Delivery and acceptance testing are complete. The daily manual search-and-check work is gone, and new reports are delivered to the person in charge via KakaoTalk and email the moment they are caught.
Other work built the same way is collected under web data collection.
Sources
Screen of the delivered system's dashboard