Preface These proceedings contain the papers of the Third International Workshop on Recent Trends in News Informa- tion Retrieval (NewsIR’19) held in conjunction with the ACM SIGIR 2019 conference in Paris, France, on the 25th of July 2019. Ten full papers and two short papers (one position paper and one demo paper) were selected by the programme committee from a total of 21 submissions. Each submitted paper was reviewed by at least three members of an international programme committee. In addition to the selected papers, the workshop features one keynote and one invited talk. The Keynote speech is given by Aron Pilhofer “From Redlining to Robots: How newsrooms apply technology to the craft of journalism”. The invited talk is given by Friedrich Lindenberg “Mining Leaks and Open Data to Follow the Money”. We would like to thank SIGIR for hosting us. Thanks also go to the keynote speakers, the program committee, the paper authors, and the participants, for without these people there would be no workshop. Dyaa Albakour Miguel Martinez Sylvia Tippmann Ahmet Aker Jonathan Stray Shiri Dori-Hacohen Alberto Barrón-Cedeño Programme Committee • Alejandro Bellogin Kouki, UAM, Spain • Marco Bonzanini, Bonzanini Consulting Ltd, UK • Ricardo Campos, Polytechnic Institute of Tomar, Portugal • Jon Chamberlain, University of Essex, UK • Dario Garigliotti, University of Stavanger, Norway • Anastasia Giachanou, Valencia, Spain • Frank Hopfgartner, The University of Sheffield, UK • Udo Kruschwitz, University of Essex, UK • Jochen Leidner, Refinitiv Labs & University of Sheffield, UK • Haiming Liu, University of Bedfordshire, UK • Edgar Meij, Bloomberg, UK • Raymond Ng, Signal AI, UK • Arian Pasquali, University of Porto, Portugal • Barbara Poblete, University of Chile, Chile • Damiano Spina, RMIT University, Australia • Andreas Spitz, Heidelberg University, Germany • Arkaitz Zubiaga, University of Warwick, UK