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For breaking-news, foreign and night desks.
FirstTide watches the channels your desk picks and tells you in Slack when a story breaks or moves, with a level and the reason. When you write it up, every story and the people in them are a search away.
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Minister to resign over a leaked recording, spokesperson says
Medium. A regional channel names the ministry spokesperson.
How the alert got there
The first report, then whether it holds. Posts from the desk's channels, in the order they were posted, UTC.
השר מתפטר הערב. ההקלטה בדרך.
The minister resigns tonight. The recording is on its way.
The first report
تقارير عن استقالة الوزير بعد تسريب تسجيل.
Reports of the minister's resignation after a leaked recording.
A second channel
דובר המשרד: השר יודיע על התפטרותו ב-22:00.
Ministry spokesperson: the minister will announce his resignation at 22:00.
A named source: the level rises to Medium
The desk hears in Slack. Also by email or browser push.
The rule behind the alert
The desk writes it once, as a sentence: a place, a word, a level, a person or an event type.
The morning after: the story research
Search every story your channels have filed, and follow the people in them.
Follow him, and an alert comes when he is named in a new story.
Why it fits a news desk
Your list, your beat
The desk picks the public Telegram channels, RSS feeds and X accounts it follows, and imports or exports the list as a CSV file.
The original beside the English
Every post keeps its original, in its own script, with a link to where it was posted. English sits under it on request.
Your editors make the call
Each story carries a level in words with a one-line reason, and the level moves as new channels join. How the check works
Alerts where the desk works
The desk writes the rules: a place, a word, a level, a person or an event type. Alerts reach Slack, the app, email and browser push.
Search every story
Search the stories your channels have filed by word, place, country, person, language or date, and the posts in their own language.
Follow the people in them
Follow a person named in your stories, see every story they appear in, and get an alert when they turn up in a new one.
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