Write Now

Connecting journalists to resources - people, stories, data - while they type

An #EditorsLab Project by Passiona Cottee, Taylor Denny & Tommaso Armstrong Special thanks to the #EditorsLab team and to Ryan Hunt for News Corp API access

The Problem

Primary problem: Journalists spend a lot of time researching and looking for data, background, experts and sources. Secondary problem: awareness of editorial copy already written within the news org

How will your prototype solve this problem?

One stop shop for finding context, checking facts, connecting to data and discovering academics.

Features

Ability to find data, experts and existing stories as the user highlights words or phrases from the text.

Future Extensibility

• A social media extension giving the user the ability to find social media mentions
• Audio extnesion returning any audio relating to highlated text
• Other content APIs with text based querying

Usage

• People who want to find resrources as they write
• Journalists in newsrooms
• A shortcut to cross linking
• When deployed with the native news organisation API, leverages editorial assets

Impact: how will the world be a better place?

Journalists will have immediate access to resources which will allow them to decrease time spent searching through irrelevent data and increase time spent on producing content.

Installation

• Install dependancies npm install
• Rename .env.example to .env and add API Keys
• Run npm start