About Franco Cosmelli
I started NWCast because I was tired of the way most news sites had started to feel.
Somewhere along the way, the web turned news into an endless scroll of half-finished stories — headlines written for clicks, coverage that forgets what happened yesterday, ten versions of the same article across ten different tabs. Good journalism still exists, but finding it takes work. And context, the thing that actually makes a story matter, almost always goes missing.
I lived in Missouri from 2013 to 2018, studying Physical Education at Lindenwood University and playing four years of college soccer — we made it to Nationals, which is still one of the things I'm proudest of. Along the way I picked up digital marketing, and — maybe more than anything — learned the language by living inside it. Those five years shaped how I read the world. I got hooked on the pace of American news, the tech industry, the cultural shifts happening in real time — the kind of conversations that, back then, weren't really happening in Chile yet. When I came home, I kept reading in English. I never really stopped.
NWCast grew out of that habit. It's my attempt at a news site that treats readers like they have time for one good read, not twenty shallow ones. That connects today's story to the ones that came before it. That's honest about what it knows and what it doesn't.
I run NWCast from Santiago, Chile. That's probably unusual for an English-language site covering global topics, but I think the distance is useful. It forces me to think about who the reader is and what they actually need to understand a story, rather than assuming.
If you have feedback, a correction, or something you think we should be covering, write to me. The email goes to my inbox.
— Franco Cosmelli
How NWCast works
I don't hide that I use AI tools in my daily workflow. Nobody running a modern newsroom does — research assistants, drafting support, fact-checking layers, language tools. Pretending otherwise in 2026 would be the biggest lie I could tell you. It's how the web works now.
What matters is what happens after.
Every story published on NWCast passes through my eyes before it goes out. I pick the topics. I decide what deserves coverage and what doesn't. I read each piece, check the framing, cut what doesn't belong, and rewrite what needs rewriting. That's why NWCast publishes around 15 stories a day instead of a hundred — because I can actually read 15.
When a story is wrong, I fix it and note the change. When I don't have enough information, I say so. When a topic falls outside what I can cover well, I skip it.
The tools help me move faster. The judgment is still mine.
If you see something that looks off — an error, missing context, a story we should be covering — write to me at admin@nwcast.com. Every email goes to my inbox.
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Based in Santiago, Chile