Newsrooms
Source. Verify. Publish. Syndicate. Hold the record.
Newsrooms
The reporter files from the field. The wire pushes to every partner. And eighteen months later, a documentary team wants to re-license it.
The pitch, 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
A story through Mix-IP
A six-week investigation, one coordinated drop, an eighteen-month re-license.
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.
- 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
Pitches in. Briefs out. Contributors verified before the first interview.
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.
- 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
Field rushes land where the desk can find them.
Fact-check and legal review the package via Room 88 — verified contributor profiles, prior-work attribution, and the source register all readable on the same story record.
- 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 Room 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
Verify the source. Verify the claim. Stage the publish.
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.
- 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
Every partner. Every region. Right boundary every time.
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.
- 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
Eighteen months later, the documentary partner can still license cleanly.
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.
The whole ecosystem
A story is more than the byline.
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.
All three workflows are illustrative composites — fictional newsroom and wire names, not customers.
Flagship newsroom · 6-week reporting · embargo enforcement
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.
One lift timestamp · All partners on one lift · Sealed source register
Wire syndication · 12-region distribution · per-region license boundaries
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.
Per-region license boundaries · Auto expiry flags · One action, retraction cascade
18-month-old story re-licensed for documentary · source NDAs intact
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.
18mo later, in the composite · All original contributors paid · Intact rights chain
Pro Transfer App
Built for the file sizes you actually ship.
A 6-hour 4K field-rush export is ~210 GB. Pro Transfer App ships it from the field over a 4G hotspot, resumes when the signal drops, and verifies the byte hash on landing — so the desk knows what’s the master and what’s a partial.
Per-recipient encryption with source identifiers encrypted and access-controlled. Per-folder permissions for fact-check vs. legal vs. wire-preview. Resumable uploads with exponential backoff so a flaky satellite uplink doesn’t cost the desk the embargo window. macOS and Windows. Free on every plan including Free.
Industry-grade trust
The compliance answer your legal team will require.
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 Room 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.