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An AI sub-editor in your newsroom.

A custom AI editorial system built around your style guide, your writing preferences, and your workflow — editing your stories on your computer while you gather the ones no one else can.

Free 30-minute workflow review. No obligation.

Choose Your Tier

The Sub

~$40/month

  • Cowork watches your story folder and edits every file to your house style, automatically
  • Style guide encoded from your existing rules, or built with you from scratch
  • Social media posts generated from your stories for Facebook and Instagram
  • Edited stories saved to your output folder, originals preserved
  • Runs on-demand or on a schedule you set
  • Remote setup on your computer

Setup: $500

The Newsroom

~$100/month

  • Everything in The Sub, plus:
  • One-key email capture — press a key in Outlook, the email and attachments land in your editorial folder
  • Content automatically classified and processed — media releases, fillers, letters, advertorials each handled with the right rules
  • Web content extraction — capture story leads from online directly into your pipeline
  • Photo naming and captioning automated

Setup: $1,000–1,500

The Engine

~$200/month

  • Everything in The Newsroom, plus:
  • Story Publisher app — AI-generated headlines, subheadlines, social post variants, photo captions, and one-click CMS publishing
  • CMS integration built for your platform — WordPress, Ghost, Squarespace, or custom
  • AI stock images generated from your story content
  • Intelligent cutting and padding — stories cut to fit or padded with verified research to fill, automatically
  • Web verification — names, titles, and details checked against live sources on every story
  • Final polish pass — automated pre-production sweep catching formatting errors, style inconsistencies, and missed issues
  • Regional sports results automation — scores, ladders, and match reports pulled and formatted
  • Online promotional content packaging — video, social, and digital assets generated from your stories
  • Print-ready image upscaling
  • Scheduled editorial workflows that run unattended

Setup: $2,000–3,000

What your AI sub-editor actually does

Edits every story to your publication's style guide — automatically

Learns your journalists' individual mistake patterns and fixes them

Fact-checks names, titles, and details against the web

Processes your stories while you're out chasing the next one

Generates headlines, subheadlines, and social posts from a single story

Names and captions your photos

Localises media releases into publication-ready articles

One-click CMS publishing — integration built for your specific platform

Generates AI stock images tailored to your stories

Organises your files and folders

Tracks your edition progress with a live dashboard

"The journalism industry has no idea where AI will take it."

"I'll show you."

Most newsrooms have lost their sub-editors. This brings them back.

Regional newsrooms are shrinking. Fewer staff, fewer resources, same deadlines. This isn't about replacing jobs or handing editorial judgment to a machine.

Your AI sub-editor works the way you want it to. Run it fully automated — it makes the mechanical edits and flags everything else for you to review. Or set it to flag only — nothing changes until you say so. You stay in control of every word that goes to print.

The goal is simple: let thinning newsrooms stay above water. Compete with metro publications without metro budgets. Free up your journalists to do the work that actually matters — the reporting, the sources, the stories only a local newsroom can tell.

The AI handles the admin. The fillers. The file movement. The generic press releases that are already written by AI — badly. The journalism stays human.

It doesn't replace journalists. It keeps newsrooms alive.

How it works

01

Free 30-minute call — we look at your workflow together

02

I encode your style guide and build your system offline

03

Remote setup session on your machine — I process your actual stories live so you see it working

04

You're editing with AI by end of day

Who I am

13+ years in newsrooms including News Corp mastheads and government communications.

Harvard CS50 and CS50 AI certified.

I built a complete AI editorial system from scratch that produces a weekly newspaper.

Not a consultant who's read about AI — an editor who built this for his own newsroom and uses it every day.

Get in touch

rick@autonewsroom.ai

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Free 30-minute workflow review. No obligation.