- Stories, editor approval and AI writing help
- Full verification and trust badge
- Newsletter
- Reader memberships
- Your own ad spaces
- Breaking news
- Integrations: analytics, embeds and webhooks
- Reader questions
- Connect your own AI, such as Claude, to search stories and write drafts
- Email help within 2 work days
The newsroom platform for independent journalism
Every story checked before it's published.
LedeRoom gives a small newsroom its public site, an editing desk with source and claim checks, AI help for drafts and translation, and reader memberships. One platform, your brand.
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See LedeRoom at work
One story from lead to published: an AI draft from the sources, the AI check, editor approval, then the verified story readers see. Recorded in our demo newsroom.
Runs on LedeRoom
Independent newsrooms publish verified stories with LedeRoom.
Every story goes through editor approval, and readers can see the sources and checks behind it.
From lede to verified story
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1 · Lead
Tips and assignments in one desk
Leads get an owner and a deadline before they go cold.
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2 · Draft
AI drafts from your sources
Reporters start from notes and documents, never from a blank page.
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3 · Verify
Sources, claim checks, sign-off
An editor approves every story, and the checks stay on record for readers.
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4 · Publish
Site, newsletter, translations
One click to the site and the brief, in every language you serve.
Plans for every size of newsroom
A monthly price plus a one-time setup, and setup is free when you pay for a year. Each plan includes an AI allowance every month.
- Everything in Community, plus:
- Assignment Desk
- Live updates for breaking news
- Social Desk: auto-posts to X, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube
- Check a link, for readers
- Email help by the next work day
- Everything in Newsroom, plus:
- Same-day help and a monthly call
AI use beyond your allowance is billed at cost plus 20%. Prices in US dollars.
Every plan includes your main language. Each extra language is $49 a month, translated by AI, and never uses your AI allowance. Plan terms
Your data is always yours
Download everything your newsroom has on LedeRoom: every story with its full history, your people, subscribers and members, your corrections and verification records, and every image as you uploaded it.
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Any time, free
Site admins download a full export from Site settings in minutes. No ticket, no fee.
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Open formats
JSON, CSV and your original files. Any platform can read them, and another LedeRoom site imports the zip as it is.
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Within 7 days if you ask
Can't sign in, or want us to hand it over? We send you the full export within 7 days of asking.
Exporting never ends your plan. Yearly plans are paid for the year ahead and run to the end of that year.