News Break
NewsBreak is the leading local news and information platform in the United States, operated by Particle Media, Inc., a Delaware corporation founded in Silicon Valley in 2015 and launched as a mobile app in 2016. Its AI-powered platform serves more than 40 million Americans a month with local news, alerts, crime maps, weather, events and community content, connecting local users, local content creators and local businesses at scale. NewsBreak exposes two developer surfaces. The NewsBreak Advertising API (NewsBreak API for Business) lets technology companies, direct advertisers and agencies programmatically manage the NewsBreak Ads Manager: organizations and ad accounts, ad-account user roles, campaigns, ad sets with budget, bidding, inventory platforms and audience targeting, ads and creative asset upload, account spending caps, conversion tracking events, and multidimensional performance reporting. The NewsBreak MSP Monetization Reporting API serves the supply side, returning impressions, revenue, publisher net revenue and eCPM for publishers and monetization partners. NewsBreak also publishes an llms.txt that scopes AI access to its verified local-business content surface.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles News Break the way a machine reads it — 10 machine-readable artifacts across 2 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — News Break scores 49.6/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 45/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
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How we profile News Break
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for News Break. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 2
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
NewsBreak Advertising API
The NewsBreak Advertising API, also published as the NewsBreak API for Business, lets technology companies, direct advertisers and agencies programmatically manage the NewsBreak...
NewsBreak MSP Monetization Reporting API
The NewsBreak MSP API for Business is the monetization-side interface NewsBreak provides to publishers and supply partners running the NewsBreak MSP monetization service platfor...
Open Collections 2
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
NewsBreak Advertising API
OPEN COLLECTIONNewsBreak MSP Monetization Reporting API
OPEN COLLECTIONArazzo Workflows 2
Real integrations are rarely a single call. Arazzo describes the multi-step sequences — auth, then create, then confirm — so both a human and an agent can follow the choreography, not just the endpoints.
Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.
Launch a NewsBreak advertising campaign
Resolve the caller's organization and ad account, create a campaign, attach a tracking event, create an ad set with budget, bidding and targeting, upload the creative asset to t...
ARAZZOReport on a NewsBreak ad account and pause underperforming campaigns
Pull a last-7-days performance report for an ad account, list its campaigns, and pause a chosen campaign by toggling its status to OFF. Read-only steps are safe to retry; the st...
ARAZZORate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
News Break Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSSecurity Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for News Break — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 4
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 5
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 7
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 3
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
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