The agentic newsroom

OnlineJourno Newsroom

Editorial intelligence for the working reporter — the flagship of JATO.

The intelligence that decides whether a story gets reported, and whether it reaches its reader, pools at the top of the newsroom. OnlineJourno Newsroom brings it to the base — to the correspondent on the beat — so she sees what’s coming on her patch, how today’s story connects to her own archive, and what became of it after she filed.

Take it on its own, or let JATO orchestrate it with the rest of the library.

What it does

The front engine — before the story

• Watch the public record. Courts, gazettes, parliament, tenders, filings, RTI, and the live news landscape — monitored on your beat, so nothing on your patch slips past.
• Contextualise against your archive. Every signal is threaded to what your newsroom has already published — no story reported in a vacuum.
• Ranked beat briefs. Each reporter gets a daily, ranked brief of what deserves her attention — with the why, every claim linked to its source.

The back engine — after the story

• A fair-chance cue, pre-publish. Before a story goes out, see whether it’s structured, timed and surfaced to reach the readers it deserves — across search, the AI-overview surface, subscription and direct.
• A diagnostic loop, post-publish. When a story under-performs, find out why, in plain English — and carry it into the next one.

Every surface is reporter-first: the same fair-chance picture the newsroom’s leadership sees is visible to the journalist on her own stories. No information asymmetry.

Standalone, or orchestrated

OnlineJourno Newsroom runs on its own — a complete editorial-intelligence platform for a newsroom that wants exactly this. It is also a JATO capability: bring a task (“assess this outlet,” “find what the regional desks missed”) and JATO orchestrates the Newsroom’s engines alongside the rest of the library. Start here; grow into the whole.

How it’s built

• Fair-source (FSL). Source-available and self-hostable from day one — read every line, run it yourself, no surveillance vendors baked in — converting to fully open over two years.
• Vendor-neutral. Plug in your own CMS, analytics and search data behind capability contracts; secrets are never stored. Every category ships an open option, so no newsroom is excluded for lacking paid tools.
• Decision-support, not autopilot. It never writes the article and never touches the publish button.

Status

In pilot, accepting a small number of design-partner newsrooms. Honest about stage: a working platform under active build, not a finished SaaS — you would be shaping it.