Local news network infrastructure
Shared infrastructure for a network of town newsrooms.
Automation collects council agendas, weather feeds, league schedules, and ad inventory. Editors review the sources, run facts and safety checks, sign off on releases, and own corrections and disclosures.
Six function-led desks cover civic reporting, sports, weather, video, ad delivery, and social distribution. Built-in review steps and version history mean every published article can show its sources, the facts it checked, and the editor who signed off.
Civic reporting
Monitors the bodies that shape local life — town and county councils, school boards, AGMs, political parties, and any group that publishes its meeting agendas or minutes — and drafts coverage with each claim linked back to its source document.
League reporting
Pulls schedules, rosters, and game results from the leagues that matter locally — youth, amateur, school, and community sports — then writes up game recaps and team updates.
Local conditions
Aggregates forecasts and severe-weather alerts from multiple sources — public agencies, commercial providers, and resident weather stations — into town-specific reporting.
Video generation
Renders anchor-style video updates from approved articles — script, voice, captions, and consistent on-camera characters.
Network ad delivery
Serves sponsorship, standard, and house ads across the network — placed by town and section, every one clearly labeled.
Distribution
Manages each town's social presence — publishing articles to channels like Facebook, X, and Threads, and videos to YouTube, X, and Threads — then watches engagement come in on every post. AI and sponsorship disclosures travel with each one.
Every article runs facts and safety reviews before release — claims checked against linked sources, and defamation, privacy, and unverified allegations flagged for human review. Each network can add its own reviews on top — legal, editorial, or anything region-specific. Editorial sign-off, version history, and a public correction trail come standard.
Each desk drafts coverage continuously from its own sources. Automated review runs first, filtering every queue down to the items that genuinely need human judgment — so editors aren't sifting through raw drafts to find what matters.
Approved stories can be rendered as anchor-style broadcasts — script, voice, captions — and routed back through the same review queue before they go out.
From the review queue, articles get scheduled to channels like Facebook, X, and Threads; videos head to YouTube, X, and Threads. Engagement comes back in from each platform, and AI and sponsorship disclosures travel with every post.
Blindman Press, a community publisher in central Alberta, runs the first nine sites on Anytown — towns where local information is specific, recurring, and easy to miss.