About Show Me Good News

The news doesn't have to feel heavy. Show Me Good News is a daily magazine of genuinely uplifting stories — breakthroughs, kindness, recovery, and progress from around the world. We exist because the headlines rarely reflect the full picture of what's happening, and most people are left with a distorted view of reality that's heavier than it needs to be.

Our mission

We believe that good news is not fluff — it's essential information. When you only hear about what's going wrong, you lose sight of what's going right. Studies in media psychology have shown that a steady diet of negative news increases anxiety, cynicism, and feelings of helplessness. Our goal is to push back against that by making it easy to find stories that remind you the world is still capable of progress, generosity, and surprise.

We're not here to tell you that everything is fine. We're here to show you the things that are getting better — the coral reefs coming back, the diseases being caught early, the communities solving problems from the ground up — so that your picture of the world is more complete.

How we curate

Every day, our automated scraper scans a curated list of the world's most reputable good-news publishers via their RSS feeds. Each candidate story is run through a positivity filter that checks the title and summary against a list of positive and negative keywords. Stories that contain words associated with violence, disaster, or scandal are filtered out — even if they appear on a good-news feed, because context matters.

Stories that pass the filter are assigned a positivity score from 0 to 100. The score is calculated by starting at a baseline of 60 and adjusting based on the presence of positive keywords (each adds points) and negative keywords (each subtracts heavily). A story needs to score at least 55 to make the cut. The score is shown on every article card so you can see at a glance how uplifting a story is.

Each story is also auto-categorised into one of five sections — Planet, Science, People, Health, or Culture — based on keyword matching against the story's text. This helps you find the kind of good news you're in the mood for.

What we add

We are not a republisher. We do not copy the full text of articles from other publishers. For every story, we write an original editor's note that explains why we picked it, what makes it significant, and what broader trend it represents. This is our own commentary — it's the value we add beyond simply linking to a story.

Each article page shows our editor's note, a brief excerpt from the original publisher, and a prominent link to read the full story at the source. We want you to go read the original — that's where the reporting lives, and the reporters deserve the traffic.

Our sources

We gather from publications dedicated to constructive and solutions journalism. Each was chosen because they consistently produce well-reported, genuinely positive stories — not clickbait, not feel-good filler, but real journalism about real progress.

• Good News Network — one of the longest-running good-news sites, publishing since 1997.
• Positive News — a UK-based magazine focused on solutions journalism and constructive reporting.
• Reasons to be Cheerful — founded by David Byrne, dedicated to stories about solutions that work.
• The Optimist Daily — a daily digest of uplifting news from around the world.
• The Better India — stories of positive change from across India, focusing on grassroots impact.
• Good Good Good — a media brand built around good news and actionable optimism.

A note on credit

We are an aggregator and curator. All reporting belongs to the original publishers — we surface it, summarise it, write about why it matters, and send readers back to the source. If you are a publisher and would like a story amended or removed, please contact us and we'll respond promptly.

Content policy

We do not publish full articles from other sources. We do not replicate content. Our article pages contain our own editorial commentary, a brief excerpt, and a link to the original. If a story does not have an editor's note, we set the page to noindex and point the canonical URL to the original source to avoid any duplicate content issues in search engines.

We display advertising through Google AdSense and other ad networks to support our operations. Ads are clearly labelled and we do not allow ads that interfere with readability.

Who we are

Show Me Good News is an independent project built by a small team that believes the internet needs more reasons to be cheerful. We're not funded by any media conglomerate or political organisation. If you'd like to support us, the best thing you can do is share a good news story with someone who needs it.