A town's paper that keeps up with its town.
Local news is a daily job with a weekly budget. Mastheads runs the newsroom: it works the topics you set on a schedule, writes in your readers' language and the way that market's newsrooms write, checks every claim against its sources, and publishes under named bylines.
Some of the sites I ran were local ones, and the thing a town notices first is silence. I built this so a small paper can publish every day, in its own voice, without a newsroom it cannot afford.
The parts nobody wants to say out loud.
- ·The town notices the day the site goes quiet.
- ·One reporter, six topics, no time to check any of them.
- ·Wire copy that reads like every other town's.
- ·AI drafts nobody would put the paper's name on.
The jobs local news publishers hand it.
Write from your own brief and nothing else
Give it the brief and up to eight reference links, and the article is built from that material with no search of ours.
Ask for an articlePublish in the language your readers read
Any language, for any country, written in the language rather than translated, with the local newsroom register where we curate one.
Voice and bylinesThe daily paper, on a schedule
A publication's newsroom runs on its own schedule in your time zone, review before publishing by default, auto-publish when you switch it on.
Topic discoveryCover your town before the nationals do
Name up to five places, and every topic you cover is searched in each of them first. Local first, national fills the rest.
Topic discoveryA name on every article
Real named bylines, an editor of record, EU AI Act disclosure, a registered DMCA agent, and a trace of the sources and checks behind each piece.
Voice and bylines
Built for local news publishers.
Your town first
Name up to five places, towns, municipalities or regions, and every topic you cover is searched in each of them first. Local first, national fills the rest.
On a schedule, every day
A publication's newsroom runs on its own schedule in your time zone, review before publishing by default, auto-publish when you switch it on.
In your readers' language
Any language, for any country, written in the language rather than translated, with the local newsroom register where we curate one.
A name on every article
Real named bylines and one editor of record per publication, written into the published article.
Every claim checked
Checked against the sources it used, with anything that fell short stated on the article.
Your own brief when the story is yours
Give it the brief and up to eight reference links, and the article is built from that material and nothing else.
Compliance is built in, not bolted on.
- EU AI Act Article 50 disclosure
- Named editor of record + real bylines
- Self-serve GDPR export and account deletion
- Registered DMCA agent
- Fact-checked against sources
- You own every article, one-click export
Answers to what local news publishers actually ask.
Can it cover our town, not just the national story?+
Does it write in our language?+
Who is responsible for what it publishes?+
Can we review before anything goes out?+
Try Mastheads for local news publishers.
7 days, 10 articles, no card. See it run on your own site.