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Official-source intelligence

When official sources change, ring the bell.

Be first — and right — on the official record. TocsinWire reads every feed, sits in on every briefing and follows every outlet reporting on your patch — then brings your desk the handful that matter, with the evidence attached and the groundwork done, so your reporters spend the day on the story.

TocsinWire does the reading, the listening and the sorting — your newsroom does the journalism. Every word that goes out is chosen by your desk.

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Built for newsrooms of every size — from national agencies to regional desks · invite-only, in early access.

The Bellboard: every change triaged, scored and draft-ready — your desk stays in control.
Designed with a national news agency Evidence-first — every signal links to its source Every publish is a human decision

The Bellboard

Your whole patch. One board.

Everything TocsinWire finds lands on one live board, most urgent first, with the reason it matters written next to it. The whole desk works it together — everyone can see what's been handled, what's claimed and what's still hot.

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Ranked, counted, explained.

Status lenses count what's new, escalated and done — and every score says why it's there.

A view for every desk.

Saved views split the wire by desk, patch or beat, shared with the whole newsroom.

Built for speed.

Keyboard-first triage — move, open, acknowledge, escalate — at wire pace.

It knows who's who.

People and organisations in a signal are recognised and linked to their reference entry, with the workspace watchlist matched alongside.

Beyond the wire

Catch the story while it's still happening.

Beyond the published wire, TocsinWire watches the rest of your patch as it moves — briefings and sittings unfolding live on air, the coverage other outlets are running, agendas published days before the meeting, and the releases arriving in your inbox — all read, ranked and flagged to the right desk in real time.

Listening Post

Watch it unfold live.

Press conferences, government briefings, council chambers and parliaments — TocsinWire watches them all as they happen, spots the moments that are news, and alerts your desk in real time: headline, quote and timecode, while the speaker is still at the podium.

  • Every room, watched at once. TocsinWire sits through every tracked briefing and sitting live, so your reporters pick up stories instead of shifts.
  • Flagged the moment it's said. A newsworthy line is scored and on your board in real time — you're writing the flash while the room is still reacting.
  • Their words, your language. Every moment arrives written the way your newsroom writes, with the speaker's own words kept as proof.
  • File it with the tape. Clip the audio straight from the transcript, or jump to the exact second at the source.
Listening Post: a live briefing, transcribed as it happens — with the moments that matter pulled out.
Regional Radar: what's running on your patch, what's building, and what came from a source you already hold.

Regional Radar

See what your patch is talking about.

Regional Radar reads the publishers on your patch, folds every version of a story into one, and ranks it on news value. You can see the stories already running, the topics building across outlets, and whether something you hold has been picked up — all in one place.

  • One entry per story. Every outlet running the same thing, gathered where you can read it in seconds.
  • Ranked the way an editor would. So the planning row sits above the restaurant opening.
  • Hear it from your own board first. If a story on your patch is already running, it is on your board while it still matters.
  • Watch a topic build. A live read of what's gaining ground across every outlet you track, so you can get to a story while it is still forming.

The Agenda

Work the story before the meeting sits.

Council and committee agendas land the moment they are published — days before the meeting sits. Your desk can read the papers, line up the interview and have the story ready before anyone takes their seat.

  • Every tracked body's agenda, in one forward list, as soon as it goes up.
  • When the meeting starts, the Listening Post picks it up and carries it live.

Press inbox

The releases sent to your newsroom, sorted.

Police, councils, emergency services and government press offices all email your newsdesk, and hundreds of releases a day land in one shared inbox. Point that inbox at TocsinWire and every message is read, ranked for urgency and sorted by subject, so each desk gets the releases it needs to see.

  • Health goes to the health desk, transport to transport — worked out from the release itself, so the routing keeps up as your desks change.
  • Anything already on your wire is folded into what you have, so you read it once.

Newsroom TV

Keep the whole newsroom informed.

Point a screen at a saved view and the room stays current — the official-source signals and Regional Radar stories that matter to your desk, live on the wall. When a briefing goes on air the wall switches to it, transcript and flagged moments beside the video, so the news reaches the room at the same moment it reaches you.

Newsroom TV: a wall display that switches to a live briefing the moment one starts.

It runs itself

It opens on any screen or streaming stick and stays there — one link, yours to rotate or retire whenever you like.

The desk moves as one

A red-band story is on the wall before anyone has checked their phone, so the response starts together.

One wall per desk

Each screen shows the view its desk cares about, and rotates between the board and the regional picture.

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How it works

From an official page changing to a desk-ready alert, in one pipeline.

  1. 01 · Monitor

    Watch official sites, feeds, documents, live broadcasts and the press releases emailed to your newsdesk — around the clock, the ones that matter most every minute.

  2. 02 · Detect

    Spot what has actually changed: a new incident, an escalation, a fresh document, a line said out loud.

  3. 03 · Score

    Rank urgency from 0 to 100 with the explainable Tocsin Score, so the desk sees what matters first.

  4. 04 · Route

    Send the right alerts to the right desk and channel: Slack, Microsoft Teams, email, a webhook, or straight into your CMS.

  5. 05 · Triage

    Work the whole wire on one board: acknowledge, assign, edit the draft, mark it useful or noise.

  6. 06 · Draft

    Hand the desk a draft it can edit — a flash, a wire piece or a desk note — written from the evidence in front of it.

Why TocsinWire

Everything gets read. You decide what matters.

Working from day one

Your market's sources are already curated and watched the day you sign in. Add your own, or ask us for one and we'll put it in your pack.

Evidence first

Every signal links to the official source and shows exactly what changed, and when. Stand behind every line you file.

Ranked so you can skip the rest

The Tocsin Score puts the most urgent at the top and says why it got there, in a sentence — so an editor can work down the list and stop when it stops mattering.

Drafting bound to the source

Every line in a draft traces back to the source, always attributed, and written in your newsroom's language. Each release is checked against a fixed quality bar before it ships.

A shorter list, a better one

Timestamp tweaks, boilerplate and cosmetic edits are filtered out on the way in. What reaches you is the handful worth stopping for.

Fits your newsroom

Route to the right desk, triage in one place, and push straight to your CMS as NINJS or NewsML-G2.

It knows who is being talked about

The people and organisations in a story are recognised and linked, so your desk always knows which Smith is being talked about.

Alerts that find you

Slack, Microsoft Teams, email or a webhook, each with its own threshold — plus a twice-daily digest for the reporters who prefer to catch up twice a day.

Views the desk can share

Save the way you work as a named view, keep it to yourself or share it with the newsroom, then point an alert or a wall screen at it.

Your beat

Tuned to the desk. And to the reporter.

Two reporters on the same desk each want a different wire. Everyone sets their own bar for what is urgent enough to interrupt them and points it at the patch, the source or the subject they actually cover — so everyone's morning starts with their own beat.

Every desk, its own wire

Save any combination of source, category, region and score as a named view — right down to what to leave out — then point that desk's alerts, or a screen on the wall, straight at it. We'll tune the ranking to what your desk counts as news.

Every reporter, their own bar

Each person decides how urgent something has to be before it reaches them, and can narrow it to the patch they cover. Health hears about health.

Quiet day? Turn the dial down

A twice-daily digest gathers everything that sat below your bar — sent at times and in a time zone you choose. On a quiet day, that's where the next story is.

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The Tocsin Score

Urgency the desk can defend.

Every signal is scored from 0 to 100 on what the source itself says: how bad it calls the situation, whether it tells the public to act, where it applies, and how far it has been escalated. The desk sees why it landed where it did — in a sentence, next to what moved it. The ranking is ours; the call is yours.

Severe Flood Warning

River Severn at Shrewsbury, Shropshire

88

Why 88

The source has raised this to its highest warning level and is telling residents to act now. The area named is populated, and this is a fresh warning.

What moved it

  • Critical source
  • Weather emergency
  • Public-safety instruction
  • Named location
  • Source-reported severity

Every signal carries its reasoning and its evidence, in the open.

Coverage

Subscribe to the source packs you cover.

TocsinWire is organised into source packs, a curated, watched set of official sources for one market. Subscribe to the markets your newsroom covers and add more as you grow. Large federal markets are sold by state or province, so you pay for the ground you actually cover.

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Belgium Portugal Switzerland United Kingdom New Zealand Australia + more on request

We keep each pack healthy so it stays one less thing on your plate. Your house style, drafts and routing stay private to your newsroom. Tell us the market you cover and we'll build the pack.

Enterprise-ready

Fits how a newsroom actually runs.

Passwordless sign-in

Passkeys or a one-time email code. Optional SSO (SAML or OIDC) if you need it.

Private workspace

Your sources, drafts and edits stay inside your newsroom, separate from every other customer.

Your CMS, natively

Push or pull NINJS and NewsML-G2 straight into your editorial system.

Your AI, your way

Use our models or bring your own provider key. What you write stays inside your workspace.

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Now inviting select newsrooms.

Request an invite and we'll stand up a trial workspace on your market's own official sources — every feature, on your own ground.

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