Bring your own story
Hand the newsroom a story you already know - your brief and your source links.
Some stories you already know - you've read the reporting, you know the angle. Bring your own story hands that straight to the newsroom.
Give it a brief and links
Write your brief and add the source links behind the story. The newsroom writes from exactly what you give it, through the same quality gates every article passes.
Your links, honored and checked
Your links are honored as given - the newsroom doesn't go looking for substitutes. If a link looks paywalled, thin, or off-topic, that gets flagged in the article's authenticity trace rather than silently dropped.
Narrow it to a place
Naming a town or district narrows the source search to that place. This only reaches open-web sources - a paywalled local outlet still can't be sourced from, named or not.
Never capped by daily pacing
Bring your own story draws only on your article pool, not your daily pacing schedule, so it's never held back by the day's cap.
Duplicate protection applies here too
The same check that guards Cover a topic applies at this door: a story already being written, freshly covered, or already running is refused before it costs you an article.
Related: Cover a topic · Scheduling and pacing