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Help notes for newsrooms
Plain answers to the questions editors ask before they change how routine coverage is produced. Each note ends with how the same task looks inside Doxx.
What is content syndication, and what does it mean for a newsroom?
The same two words describe two different businesses. Marketers use them for placing their own articles on other sites. Newsrooms use them for receiving material they may publish. This note is about the second meaning.
How to choose a content syndication platform for a publisher
Most platforms sold under this name are built for marketers who want their articles placed elsewhere. A publisher needs the opposite: a reliable way to receive material it can edit and publish. Here is what to compare.
AI for publishers: how a newsroom works with AI-assisted drafts
Language models can turn structured source information into readable drafts quickly. They can also be confidently wrong. A newsroom that uses them well treats every draft as an editorial starting point and keeps the decision to publish with a person.
AI tools for journalists: what they can do, what they cannot, and how to check
Most guides on AI in journalism are written by universities and vendors. This one is written for the desk: which tasks are safe to hand over, which are not, and how to catch the mistakes before a reader does.
Content for a local news website: how to keep a daily pace with a small team
A local site lives or dies on regularity. Readers come back when there is something new every day, and a two-person newsroom cannot report ten original stories a day. The answer is to separate what only you can do from what can be produced to a brief.
News article generators: what they produce, and what a newsroom can actually publish
Search for a news article generator and you get three unrelated things: a toy that prints a fake newspaper page for a joke, a general-purpose AI writer, and suppliers that prepare draft material for editors. Only the third is built for publication.
Licensed news content: what a publisher may republish, edit and put its name on
A licence for editorial material answers five questions: where you may publish, what you may change, whether you must credit the supplier, what happens to images and what happens when you stop paying. Read those five clauses before anything else.
Getting draft articles into your CMS: archive, private RSS feed or API
The best delivery channel is the one your team will actually use every morning. Start manual, connect a feed when volume justifies it, integrate by API when your organisation has developers and a reason.
Free newsroom tools: what you can test without paying, and what you cannot
Free tiers are useful when they let you run the real workflow for long enough to judge it. They are useless when they show a demo and hide the part you would pay for. Here is how to tell the difference, and what the Doxx Free plan gives.
Autoblogging for news sites: what fails, what works, and where the editor stays
Autoblogging tools promise a site that fills itself. For a news site that promise is the problem: unreviewed text, scraped feeds and rewritten wires are exactly what readers leave and search engines demote. Automation still has a place, one step earlier.
Try it on your own editorial brief
The Free plan includes 50 credits. Set up one Stream, receive drafts for a week and decide with real material in front of you.