Source. Verify.
Publish. Syndicate. Hold the record.
Mix-IP holds the story end-to-end — every pitch, contributor, embargo, syndicate, re-license — for the legal life of the byline. Built for newsrooms that source from everywhere, move fast, and need to defend a frame in court three years later.
Bundled on every plan: Vault 88 for source-protection NDAs and embargo-locked previews · Pro Transfer App for field rushes and broadcast masters · Wise + Stripe rails for reporter, photographer, and fixer payouts in 60+ currencies.
Why newsrooms pick Mix-IP
The reporter files from the field. The desk holds the embargo. The wire pushes to every partner. And eighteen months later, the documentary team wants to re-license the package.
The pitch, the rolodex, the field rushes, the embed agreements, the wire pickups — today each lives in a different inbox, notebook, or spreadsheet.
With Mix-IP
All of it becomes one living record — so the relationships, the verified profiles, and the source-protection promises all survive the reporters who leave and the desks that re-org.
And the desk buys as well as it sells. The same record works demand-side: license provenance-clean footage in — archival pulls, calls for stories, live feeds — with the chain of custody, cleared faces, and chain of title already attached. The standards-desk checklist, answered before the clip is downloaded, verifiable by anyone on the public verification page.
AnywhereContributors file fromReporters, photographers, fixers, and stringers around the world — pitches arrive from anywhere, briefs go out to whoever can file the story fastest, and every contributor carries a verified workspace profile with prior-work attribution from day one.
One liftEvery syndication partnerOne master file licensed and pushed to wire, regional partners, web edition, broadcast cut, podcast feed, and archive — each with the right license boundary applied automatically from the same story record.
100%Shares tracedEvery share of every frame is traced to its recipient, and the per-recipient forensic watermark survives metadata-strip and recompression. The desk knows who the source is and where every preview went. Encrypted in transit and at rest; the record is the proof.
YearsArchive horizon for re-licenseWhen a documentary partner comes calling long after publication, the original source-protection NDAs, the embed agreement, and the photographer's release are all still attached. Provenance proves the chain of custody to the re-license partner. IP Registry included.
A story through Mix-IP
A six-week investigation,
one coordinated drop, an eighteen-month re-license.
One story, one record, five steps. A news director at a flagship newsroom assigns an investigative package to a correspondent — from credentialing the embed photographer through to the day, eighteen months later, a documentary partner re-licenses the package. No source agreement on a paralegal's hard drive, no embargo coordination across a wall of emails, no wire-pickup retraction that misses a regional partner. Each step below cross-links to the feature page that does the work.
01/05
Pitch & commission
Pitches in. Briefs out. Contributors verified before the first interview.
Pitches arrive from staffers and from the global stringer network — investigative angles, frontline footage, fixer-led leads from regions the desk can't physically be in. The news director reviews the pitch board and briefs the package out to a correspondent, with the embed photographer and the local fixer already verified against their workspace profiles and prior-work attribution; embed agreements, source agreements, and attribution chains attach to the story record from the first review. The relationship lives in the workspace, not in one editor's notebook — the next news director who joins inherits the rolodex.
A pitch from a stringer you've never met still carries their track record — prior work and a verified profile attached before you commission
The rolodex lives on the workspace, not in the news director's notebook — the next director inherits every contact and their history
Embed agreement, source NDA, and legal pre-clearance live on the story record — not three Inboxes deep when the package goes to publish
Pitched 02 Mar 2026 · commissioned · profiles verified
AO
Adisa Okonkwo
Lead correspondent · byline
Verified
Staff · profile + credits
HE
Hadi Erturk
Embed photographer · Istanbul
Verified
Profile + prior work
YA
Yasmin Adel
Fixer / stringer · Cairo
Verified
Profile + prior work
Briefed · in fieldMaren Vasquez · News Director
02/05
File from the field
Field rushes land where the desk can find them.
The correspondent files raw 4K field rushes, audio interviews, and the photographer's stills via Pro Transfer App over a mobile hotspot — the upload resumes when the connection drops, hash-verifies on landing, and the desk sees the new files at the next shift change. Source identifiers stay encrypted and access-controlled throughout; the rushes hit the workspace, the source agreements hold, and the fact-check team can start verifying the moment a clip lands. And when the story can’t wait for the next shift — a correspondent on a phone, a remote guest on a link, a fixer’s field camera — the desk cuts it live in Live Studio, and the broadcast records straight to the same story record, source trust and all.
Resumable transfers from the field — 4G hotspot, satellite uplink, hotel Wi-Fi all retry where they dropped, not from byte zero
A frame challenged years later has byte-level proof it's the original — the exact file the reporter filed from the field
Source identifiers stay encrypted in transit and at rest, access-controlled per newsroom — the NDA holds before the file even hits the desk
Verify the source. Verify the claim. Stage the publish.
Fact-check and legal review the package via Vault 88 — verified contributor profiles, prior-work attribution, and the source register all readable on the same story record. The desk knows who the source is and what they've filed before a frame goes through fact-check. Gated previews stay reviewable in-platform with per-recipient forensic watermarks for the partner-preview cycle. Embargo lift is keyed to the publish timestamp on the story record — one timestamp, one simultaneous push.
You know a source is verified before a claim reaches fact-check — the register stays sealed, but the desk can see it holds
Gated previews via Vault 88 — per-recipient forensic watermarks, source identifiers encrypted and access-controlled, fact-check and legal get full review
Embargo lift keyed to the story record — one timestamp, one simultaneous push, no coordination drift across time zones
Every partner. Every region. Right boundary every time.
Publish goes live and the story drops simultaneously to the flagship, the wire's regional desks, the broadcast cut, the podcast feed, and the regional partner list. Per-channel license boundaries apply automatically: the web edition gets perpetual, the broadcast cut a 24-month window, a regional pickup a 12-month territorial license, the archive horizon stays open. License events fire contributor splits to the reporter, photographer, and fixer on the same record — no parallel spreadsheet, no missed wire-pickup share, no fixer waiting on a second-cycle invoice.
A pickup can't outlive its window — the boundary set at publish enforces itself, so nothing runs unlicensed after it expires
A retraction travels the same path as the publish — pull once and it reaches every partner that ran the story
The fixer's share fires with everyone else's — the contributor hardest to pay by wire gets paid from the same event, no separate cycle
Eighteen months later, the documentary partner can still license cleanly.
It's eighteen months later. A documentary partner wants to re-license the package for a feature. The workspace surfaces the original source-protection agreements (still encrypted, still access-controlled), the embed agreement, and the photographer's per-frame release; provenance proves the chain of custody to the partner's procurement; the legal-hold metadata exports cleanly to e-discovery if litigation surfaces. License events fire re-license payouts to the reporter, photographer, and fixer the moment the contract signs. The byline holds; the source promise holds; the archive horizon stretches.
Source NDAs survive the byline — encrypted and access-controlled for the legal life of the work, even after the reporter rotates out
The source-protection promise still holds eighteen months on — the agreements are sealed and encrypted whoever's now at the desk
Re-license events fire contributor payouts — Wise + Stripe rails route to original reporter, photographer, fixer in 60+ currencies
14 Oct 2027 · 18 months after original publish · legal hold intact
Adisa OkonkwoReporter · byline credit
Re-license17 Oct 2027
Hadi ErturkEmbed photographer
Re-license17 Oct 2027
Yasmin AdelFixer · local stringer
Re-license17 Oct 2027
Source register (3)Encrypted · access-controlled
Sealed—
Cleared · DocFrontProvenance · legal hold intact
Where Mix-IP fits in your stack
We replace the rights record. Not the editorial tools.
Mix-IP consolidates the long-memory layer of the newsroom — the source register, the embed agreements, the embargoes, the syndication boundaries, the retractions, the re-licenses. We don't replace the tools your reporters and editors actually love. Your CMS stays. Your wire feeds stay. Your edit suites stay. Your transcription pipeline stays. We just stop the story from leaking out the seams between them.
Replaces
Stop running the story through these.
Brief & pitch management in spreadsheetsThe "this week's pitches" tab in the news desk's shared OneDrive doesn't survive the news director rotating out. Mix-IP runs the pitch board on the workspace — pitches, briefs, commission status, contributor profiles, all on one record.
Contributor rolodexes in someone's notebookReporters, photographers, fixers, stringers around the world — the names, numbers, and trust history that every news director keeps personally. Mix-IP holds the contributor network on the workspace — verified profiles with prior-work attribution and profile metadata — so the next news director inherits the rolodex.
Source-vetting in PGP-encrypted emailPGP encrypts the message but doesn't verify who's behind it. Mix-IP attaches verified profile metadata and prior-work attribution to the source register — the desk knows the source IS who they say they are. Encryption in transit and at rest is the backstop layer beneath that.
News-org DAMs and MAMs as the rights record — Aprimo, Bynder, Picturepark, North Plains, OpenTextDAMs hold the file. Mix-IP holds the file PLUS the contributor profile, the source NDA, the embed agreement, the syndication ledger, and the chain of custody — all on the same story record.
Wire-service intake spreadsheets and per-partner email threadsThe "this week's syndications" tab in the news desk's shared OneDrive is a syndication ledger waiting to break. Mix-IP routes per-partner license boundaries automatically and surfaces the syndication run on the story record — including embargo windows, retraction cascades, and re-license events when DocFront calls eighteen months later.
Frame.io for video reviewVault 88 ships gated previews with per-recipient forensic watermarks — the review surface plus the source-protection layer that newsroom legal teams require but Frame.io doesn't ship.
Plays nicely with
Keep the tools your desk relies on.
News CMSes — Arc XP, Brightspot, Atomic, WordPress VIP, custom in-houseYour CMS handles the publish surface. Mix-IP handles the rights, the source attributions, and the syndications. The CMS publishes; Mix-IP holds.
Wire services as feeds — Reuters, AP, AFP, Bloomberg, StoryfulYou ingest from wires through your existing intake pipeline. Outbound syndications flow through Mix-IP with per-partner boundaries on the same record.
Edit suites — Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro, Avid Media ComposerYour video editor stays in their editing tool. Mix-IP holds the source files, the proxies, the legal-hold metadata, and the broadcast cut master.
Legal hold & e-discovery — Onna, Relativity, LogikcullLegal hold metadata exports cleanly to your e-discovery surface. Source NDAs, embed agreements, and chain of custody flow downstream when litigation hits.
Transcription & accessibility — Otter, Trint, 3Play MediaYour transcription pipeline doesn't change. Mix-IP holds the transcripts as accessibility-tagged sidecars to the master — readable by your CMS, citeable in the byline.
The whole ecosystem
A story is more than the byline.
A story needs reporters — and editors, a lawyer, a syndication desk, an accountant. Mix-IP puts them on one record and makes the hard part simple: source agreements, embargoes, syndication boundaries, and rights records handled in the product, AI-assisted — no separate legal or admin team. The newsroom stays on the story while the legal and administrative layer runs itself.
Editors & desk leads
Assign, verify, and publish against one record — who filed what, who's cleared, who's owed, in one place.
Newsroom counsel & legal
Source agreements, embargoes, and chain of custody already structured — litigation-ready proof, not a folder of loose files.
Syndication & wire partners
Per-partner license boundaries applied automatically — every pickup, every region, on the same record.
Photo & video desks
Rushes, stills, and masters land with provenance and releases attached — cleared before they're used.
Finance & rights admin
Every split and re-license carries a verifiable receipt — contributor payouts reconcile themselves.
Publishers & investors
Rights, syndication, and archive value visible on one record — diligence without the reconstruction.
Three newsroom workflows
What ships when the byline holds.
Three illustrative composite workflows — an investigative drop, a daily wire feed, a long-tail re-license — showing how the record behaves end to end.
The embargo lift is one timestamp on the story record — every partner keyed to the same moment, no per-partner coordination emails. In the composite, the source register stays sealed under the newsroom's access controls through a later discovery motion.
Daily wire feed
ConsensusWire — daily wire feed scaling
Wire syndication · 12-region distribution · per-region license boundaries
Per-regionLicense boundaries
AutoExpiry flags
One actionRetraction cascade
License expirations flag ahead of the deadline instead of after the breach, and a retraction cascades to every region with one action — the syndication ledger lives on the story record, not in a spreadsheet tab.
Archive re-license
DocFront — long-tail re-license
18-month-old story re-licensed for documentary · source NDAs intact
18moLater, in the composite
AllOriginal contributors paid
IntactRights chain
Provenance proves the chain of custody at procurement on the documentary side, and re-license payouts route to the original contributors through the same record. Source-protection NDAs survive intact through the review.
All three workflows are illustrative composites — fictional newsroom and wire names, not customers.
Industry-grade trust
The compliance answer your legal team will require.
Newsrooms working with confidential sources, embed agreements, embargoed material, and litigation-discoverable archives need more than a vendor with a shared Google Drive. Mix-IP ships the controls newsroom counsel, IT, and procurement actually verify before signing — with source-protection that survives the platform itself.
Anchored provenance Live
Every record carries a qualified timestamp (RFC 3161 / eIDAS Art. 41) plus a public-chain anchor, issued as W3C Verifiable Credentials with C2PA content credentials.
Encrypted end to end Live
Contributors carry verified workspace profiles with prior-work attribution, and unpublished material sits encrypted in transit and at rest, access-controlled per newsroom. The reporter's source-protection promise rests on the record, not on a promise from the platform that holds it. Customer-managed keys — talk to us.
DPA-ready Live
GDPR-compliant Data Processing Addendum signed at workspace creation. Standard Contractual Clauses for cross-border transfers. EU data residency on request — useful when sources sit in jurisdictions where US discovery would otherwise reach.
Public verification Live
Anyone can verify a story record — no account, no login — and the forensic watermark survives metadata-strip and recompression. The provenance outlives Mix-IP: if the platform disappears, the chain of custody on the byline does not. Useful when synthetic-media claims surface in court years after publication.
GDPR-compliant Data Processing Addendum at workspace creation · EU data residency on request · standards vocabulary: qualified timestamp (RFC 3161 / eIDAS Art. 41) + public-chain anchor + W3C Verifiable Credentials + C2PA content credentials.
Newsrooms
Run your next story through Mix-IP.
Brief the story. Hold the source. Hold the byline — for the legal life of the work, not the life of the reporter who filed it. And when the desk is buying, license provenance-clean footage in — archival, calls for stories, live feeds — with the record already attached.
Includes Vault 88 for source-protection NDAs and embargo-locked previews · Pro Transfer App for field rushes and broadcast masters · Wise + Stripe rails for reporter, photographer, and fixer payouts in 60+ currencies.