Case Study: Sky News achieves faster breaking-news discovery and richer real-time imagery with Dataminr for News

Sky News - Customer Case Study

Sky News, a London‑based broadcaster, faced the constant newsroom challenge of finding and verifying fast-moving, user‑generated content from social media—especially high‑value imagery and eyewitness posts. When the Notre‑Dame cathedral caught fire, Sky News journalists didn’t wait for the wires: they discovered the story and key photos first using Dataminr for News.

Dataminr’s AI platform, processing billions of public signals from more than 150,000 sources, was embedded into Sky News’s workflows (used there since September 2018) to surface pre‑viral alerts, translate captions, and feed alerts into desks and collaboration tools. The result: Sky News saw Notre‑Dame minutes before major wires (versus the “tens of minutes” it took for imagery to appear elsewhere), gained faster, verifiable visual content, and gained the “safety net” confidence Dataminr provides—part of a service used in 650+ newsrooms.

Sky News

Adam Parker

Digital News Editor