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Every official source. Read, ranked, ready.

TocsinWire watches everything official on your patch — the websites and feeds, the live briefings and sittings, the coverage other outlets are running, and the releases sent to your newsdesk. It ranks what matters, explains why, and puts it in front of the right desk with the evidence attached.

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The Bellboard

One board. The whole desk, in step.

Every signal on your patch lands on one live board, most urgent first, with the reason it matters written next to it. The desk works from the top at keyboard speed — and everyone can see what's been handled and what's still hot.

  • Ranked, counted, explained. Status lenses count what's new, escalated and done — and every score says why.
  • 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.
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The Bellboard: every change triaged, scored and draft-ready — your desk stays in control.

The pipeline

From a source changing to a story moving.

  1. 01

    Monitor

    Official sites, feeds, documents, live broadcasts and your press inbox — watched around the clock, the most critical every minute.

  2. 02

    Detect

    Only a real change becomes a signal. Timestamp tweaks, boilerplate and cosmetic edits are filtered on the way in.

  3. 03

    Score

    Every signal gets a 0–100 urgency ranking, with the reason written out in a sentence.

  4. 04

    Route

    Sorted by subject and sent to the desks it concerns, on the channels they already use.

  5. 05

    Triage

    Acknowledge, assign, escalate or archive — the whole desk working one board, in step.

  6. 06

    Draft

    A flash, a wire piece or a desk note — written from the evidence, attributed, in your newsroom's language.

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The surfaces

Wherever the story starts, it ends up on your board.

The Bellboard carries what official sources put in writing. The rest cover where the rest of the news lives — the rooms where decisions are announced, the coverage moving on your patch, the papers published before a meeting sits, and the releases arriving in your inbox.

Live

Listening Post

Watch a briefing unfold live — the transcript running, the newsworthy moments flagged, scored and alerted as they're said. Or get on with something else entirely: the moment anything worth covering is said, it finds you.

  • The live transcript runs in real time — read the room without being in it.
  • Every flagged moment is scored, summarised in your language, and keeps the speaker's exact words.
  • Clip the audio straight from the transcript, or jump to the exact second at the source.

Regional Radar

Regional Radar reads the publishers on your patch, folds every version of a story into one, and ranks it on news value — so you can see what is already running, what is building across outlets, and whether anything you hold has been picked up.

  • Every outlet running the same thing, gathered into a single entry.
  • Ranked on news value, so the planning row sits above the restaurant opening.
  • A live read of the topics gaining ground, and a link back to the official source that set each story off.

The Agenda

Council and committee papers land the moment they are published — days before the sitting — so the story is ready before anyone takes their seat.

  • Every tracked body in one forward list.
  • When the meeting starts, the Listening Post carries it live.

Press inbox

Point your newsdesk inbox at TocsinWire and every release is read, ranked and sorted by subject — each desk gets the ones it needs to see.

  • Ranked and sorted the moment it arrives, straight from the release itself.
  • Folded into what's already on your wire, so you read it once.

The Bellboard

Every incoming signal on one live board, most urgent first — the surface the whole desk works from.

  • Everything TocsinWire finds lands here — every source, every surface, one queue.
  • Acknowledge, claim, escalate or archive, and the whole desk sees it instantly.

Newsroom TV

A wall screen that keeps the room informed — the signals and Regional Radar stories that matter to your desk, live, with briefings taking over the moment they go on air.

The Newsroom TV wall display: ranked story cards from official sources beside a live briefing with its transcript and flagged moments.
  • Opens on any screen or streaming stick — one link, yours to rotate or retire whenever you like.
  • Switches to a briefing or sitting the moment it goes on air.
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The Tocsin Score

The Tocsin Score, explained.

Every signal is scored 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 — and every signal says why it landed where it did, in one sentence. The desk works down from the top and catches every red one.

  • Ranked for triage The desk works down from the top and catches every red one — and can stop when it stops mattering.
  • The reason, in a sentence Every score says why it landed where it did, next to the factors that moved it — so an editor can argue with it, and trust it.
  • Quiet by design The score is a dial: raise your bar on a heavy day, lower it on a quiet one and go looking for the story underneath.

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
  • Public-safety instruction
  • Named location
  • Source-reported severity

Evidence & drafts

Evidence first. Draft second. The judgement is yours.

Evidence trail

Source URL, before/after text, diff, screenshot and extracted facts, linked to every claim.

Draft Studio

Flash, wire article, desk note, alert or developing note, configurable per desk, language and category.

Bound to the evidence

Every line in a draft traces back to the source and carries its attribution, and each release is checked against a fixed quality bar before it ships.

Route & deliver

To the desks that need it.

Every signal — including the releases emailed to your newsdesk — is ranked for urgency, sorted by subject and sent to the desks it concerns: health to health, transport to transport, worked out from the material itself, so routing keeps up as your desks change. Everything is always on the TocsinWire board, and email alerts come set up out of the box — the whole newsroom is covered from day one, and each desk can tune its own channels from there.

Delivers to

Slack Microsoft Teams Email Discord Signed webhook NINJS NewsML-G2

Each channel carries its own urgency bar and can be scoped to a saved view — and NINJS or NewsML-G2 lands the story straight in your CMS.

Your beat

Tuned to the desk. And to the reporter.

Every desk, its own wire

Saved views scope the board, the alerts and the wall screens to exactly what each desk covers.

Every reporter, their own bar

Each person decides how urgent something must be to interrupt them, and narrows it to their own patch.

Quiet day? Turn the dial down

A twice-daily digest gathers everything that sat below your bar — on a quiet day, that's where the next story is.

See it on your own sources.

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