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OpenNRCS

OpenNRCS is a full newsroom computer system. It carries a story across its entire life: from the wire, through writing and review, into a timed rundown, on air, and out to the web and social platforms, all in one shared workspace.

Available to MediaGuard partners

The problem

One story, five disconnected systems

Newsroom tooling has traditionally been split across systems: a wire terminal, a script editor, a rundown application, a web CMS, a social scheduler. Every handoff between them loses context. OpenNRCS folds that chain into a single surface where the source material, the broadcast script, the show clock, and the published article are all views of the same story.

How it works

One workspace from wire to air

The feed

AFP, Reuters Connect, RSS, and Google News arrive in one live stream. AI triage assigns flash, urgent, or normal priority to open-feed items, while agency wire priorities carry straight through. Media is preserved in the project library, and agency updates stay attached to the original item instead of piling up as duplicates.

One story, three angles

A story is written once and angled three ways: a TV script, a web article, and a social post. The script is built from typed blocks and times itself at about 150 words per minute, and the whole editor is RTL-aware for Arabic.

The rundown

Lettered segments hold story rows against live timing columns. Readiness chips show script, media, CG, and timing state at a glance, live mode turns the grid into the on-air surface, and templates spawn a standing show structure in one step.

AI the newsroom steers

Three prompts owned by the newsroom set the editorial direction, the anchor-read style, and the voice-over style. Drafts come at three depths, and the web article and social post can be regenerated from the current script at any time.

Assignment desk and publishing

A kanban board carries assignments from pitch to published, with story status and desk stage moving together. An SEO editor and per-platform previews publish to CMS and social targets: WordPress, Arc XP, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and X.

Who it is for

Built for desks that publish everywhere

Broadcast

Broadcast newsrooms

Producers, reporters, and editors who put a daily show on air share one workspace: the feed, the scripts, the rundown clock, and the assignment desk all point at the same stories.

Converged

Converged desks

Desks that produce TV, web, and social from one team write the story once, angle it three ways, and publish each angle to its destination without leaving the workspace.

Apply through MediaGuard

OpenNRCS is available to beneficiaries of the MediaGuard program. Tell us about your newsroom and what your team produces, and we will take it from there.

Apply through MediaGuard
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