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Newsdesks

Create, edit, pause and delete the newsdesks that define which pitches your organization receives.

A newsdesk is an editorial beat: its topics, its locations and the language its pitches are written in. Pitches are routed to desks, so the desks you keep here decide what shows up in Pitches. Newsdesks is where you create and maintain them.

Every member can open the list and a desk's page, Viewers included. Creating, editing, enabling, disabling and deleting need the Member role or above (the newsdesk:write permission); without it those controls are missing. The page sits under Discovery in the sidebar. For a first walk-through, see Set up a newsdesk.

Create a newsdesk

  1. Open Newsdesks and choose New Newsdesk. The Add Newsdesk form opens.
  2. Enter a Name and choose a Content language; these two are required. Add a Description, an Audience and Custom instructions if you want to steer how pitches are written.
  3. Add Topics, chosen from a fixed list, and Locations, in free text. These decide which events are routed to the desk.
  4. Choose Create Newsdesk.

A Newsdesk created message appears and the desk's page opens. How topics and locations match events is explained in Set up a newsdesk and in The pipeline.

Read the list

The header counts the desks and how many are active, for example "3 newsdesks · 2 active". Each row shows the Name, whether it is Enabled (Active or Paused), its Topics and Locations, its Last run, which reads Never before the pitch engine has run for it, and when it was Updated. Search with Search by name…, or choose + Add filter for Topic, Location, Created or Updated.

Edit, pause or delete a newsdesk

Open a desk to see its Configuration and Operations, which shows its Last run. A View pitches link opens the pitches routed to it. From the desk's page:

  • Edit changes any of its fields, and Save keeps the change. If a colleague changed the desk after you opened it, you are asked to reload and try again.
  • Disable stops the desk generating new pitches until you Enable it again, and the desk shows Paused.
  • Delete removes the desk permanently, from its page or from the row's Newsdesk actions menu.

Other ways to manage newsdesks

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Data Sources

Add, run, monitor, edit and delete the feeds and scrapers that bring articles into your organization.

Activity

Read your organization's audit trail to see who did what, to what and when, including actions Nuvelics staff performed in your organization.

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Create a newsdeskRead the listEdit, pause or delete a newsdeskOther ways to manage newsdesks