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Broadcasters & Publishers
Global Reach, Local Budget
  • Quickly find and hire the best talent for your projects.
  • Enhance your content with on-location news gathering and reporting.
  • Do more with less; avoid travel costs by hiring locally.
  • Enrich your storytelling with locally sourced content.
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  • Specify topic or location, accessing diverse perspectives from our global journalist network.
  • Break news first with timely pitches from over 10,000 journalists on the ground.
  • Get endless pitch ideas for investigative features, human-interest stories, or trend coverage.
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  • Let your producers focus on great content, we'll handle payment and compliance.
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Media Monitoring & Targeting
  • Discover and analyze brand mentions with our Al-powered News Intelligence.
  • Monitor media coverage and track sentiment across hundreds of thousands of news articles.
  • Separate opinion from fact with our unique factuality scale for accurate information.
  • Effortlessly find expert news professionals and relevant content with our instant keyword search.
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  • Pay all your contributors in one bulk payment
  • Onboard your own contributors or access our 10,000+ professionals in 180+ countries.
  • Control spending with budget limits; track expenses in real-time.
  • Manage divisional spending with segregated budgets, while maintaining a global view.
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  • Let your producers focus on great content, we'll handle payment and compliance.
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