Five tools, four places to lose the story
Newsroom work has traditionally been split across a wire terminal, a script editor, a rundown application, a web CMS, and a social scheduler. Every boundary between them is a re-keyed headline, a timing that no longer matches, a correction that reaches air but never the website. OpenNRCS removes the boundaries by making every stage a view of one story record.
From wire to air, one record the whole way
A story can enter from any direction, promoted from a wire item or pitched on the assignment desk, and every module keeps pointing at the same underlying record.
- Stage 1
Feed
AFP, Reuters Connect, RSS, and Google News land in one live stream. An AI pass tags each open-feed item with a priority and a category and reformats it into clean Markdown, word for word. Promote any item into a story, pre-linked to its source.
- Stage 2
Story
A story is written once and angled three ways: a TV script of typed blocks, a web article, and a social post. Spoken blocks time themselves at broadcast read rate, and clips lock to their real length, keeping the run time trustworthy.
- Stage 3
Rundown
Stories drop into lettered segments against live timing columns: front time, back time, and over/under. Readiness chips show what is approved at a glance. Go live and advance story by story against the show clock.
- Stage 4
Publish
Approved web and social angles reach their destinations through an SEO editor with live previews, covering CMS platforms and social targets, each built from the matching angle.
Written once. Angled three ways.
The three angles are tabs of one record, not three documents in three tools. Edit the story once and every angle stays in step; a correction made for air reaches the website too.
TV script
Typed blocks, timed to the second.
Web article
Headline, dek, and body for the site.
Social post
A platform-ready post and card.
The desk, the AI, and the clock
The same record carries through assignment, AI assistance, and timing, configured by the newsroom itself.
AI the newsroom steers
Three prompts the editorial team owns set the editorial direction, the anchor-read style, and the voice-over style. Every draft reads them, comes at the depth you choose, and writes the TV script, the web article, and the social post in one pass.
The assignment desk
Assignments run on a board from pitch through published. Every card is born with a story attached, and from then on story status and desk stage move together, with assignees, due dates, and field resources on each card.
Timed to the second
Spoken blocks time themselves from the text at broadcast read rate, and attaching a clip locks a block to its real length. The run time is built into the writing, and a story reaches the rundown already trustworthy.
Everyone looking at the same story
Shared by the whole team
The producer building the rundown, the reporter writing the script, and the editor watching the desk are looking at the same data, not exporting it between tools.
Configured by the newsroom
AI prompts, feed sources, rundown templates, and CG templates are part of the workspace, which means the system's behavior is set by the newsroom itself.
Right-to-left aware
The whole editor handles Arabic and other right-to-left scripts, from the wire copy through the script to the published article.
One record, no re-keying
A correction made once reaches the script, the rundown, and every published angle, because they are views of a single record.
Built for desks that publish everywhere
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 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.
Bring your newsroom onto one surface
OpenNRCS is available to MediaGuard partners. Tell us about your newsroom and what your team produces, and we will take it from there.