About 120sec

120sec is a two-minute news feed for New Zealand. Open it once, scroll once, and you have seen what the day was about: every story is a short brief with the facts, a picture, and a direct link to the publication that reported it.

What you get

• The stories people in New Zealand are searching for and reading right now.
• Three to five checked facts per story: what happened, what is new, what comes next.
• A picture, a trailer or a track for every story where one exists.
• A direct link to the publication that did the reporting — we do not republish articles.

How we work

Stories are selected from search trends and the news wires of New Zealand, then briefed from the source articles with AI assistance and checked against those sources before they go out: every number and every name in a brief must appear in the reporting it rests on. What we cannot verify, we leave out.

Ownership and funding

120sec is published by 120sec, an independent publisher. Editorial responsibility sits with the 120sec Editorial Team. The site is funded by advertising served programmatically; advertisers have no say in what we cover and are never told about stories in advance.

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