A JATO capability · also standalone

Lens

The landscape monitor — what the field is covering, and how it’s framing it.

A newsroom can’t see itself clearly without seeing the field. Lens tracks a set of outlets — yours, your rivals, the global benchmarks — and reads not just what they cover but how: the narrative frames they reach for, the topics they crowd, the angles they miss. Built on an established journalism codebook (the PEJ framing taxonomy), not vibes.

It’s the standing intelligence behind a beat — and the framing engine inside The Audit.

Standalone, or part of JATO

Run Lens on its own as a landscape desk. It’s also a JATO capability — the framing read that The Audit and OnlineJourno Newsroom draw on.

Fair-source (FSL) — self-host (request access) or engage. Status: mature.