Newsroom

 

Gather & Monitor

• News Feed — Customized news aggregator. 

  • You can add any feed you already follow. 

  • Monitor your Email & Vera will sift through emails that are Press Releases & add them to the News Feed

  • Add Bluesky Feeds

  • Add SMS Text Alerts

  • Search stories plus archived scripts

  • A live, categorized story feed (Local, State, National, Breaking, Sports, Press Releases) curated and prioritized by Vera in real time. 

• Breaking News Watch — Continuous monitoring for real breaking events, with instant dashboard alerts and automatic anchor text notifications. 

• Podcast Scanner - monitor your station’s podcasts & automatically provides transcript and important audio clips for newscasts

• Audio Import & Analyzer — Pull in audio from any URL or upload it directly; Vera transcribes it and extracts the newsworthy moments as ready-to-use clips.

• Article Analyzer - Upload a file, paste a URL or paste text to automatically analyzer ready for newcast pieces

• Weather Center - Create quick weather reports

  • Activate Emergency Weather coverage to just get stories related to the weather event

• Traffic Center - Create traffic reports along with sponsor mentions

• Finance Segment Builder — Curates business headlines for on-air market/finance segments.

• Sportscast Builder — Curates local sports headlines for on-air 

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Write, Build, Broadcast & Produce

• Vera Write - Click any news story to instantly generate ready-to-air snippet for a newscast

• Storyboard — A drag-and-drop kanban board for assigning stories to anchors and tracking them from assigned to ready-to-air.

  • Write multiple versions of the same story or have Vera assist writing

• Script Editor — Build a complete, timed newscast script from your assigned stories, with AI rewrite assistance and direct hand-off to On-Air mode.

• Teleprompter — A clean, full-screen on-air prompter with adjustable scroll speed and one-click audio cue playback.

• Vera Auto-Briefs & Rundowns — Automatically generated morning, midday, and drive-time news briefs plus hourly newscast rundowns, ready before you need them.

• Play Local Audio - Upload audio clips or play off of a local drive

• Record Audio - Record audio directly in to ActaVera from the studio…or remotely for anchors to edit back at the studio.

• Audio Editor — Waveform-based editing for produced segments and clips, ready for air.

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Operate & Monetize

• Team Management — Role-scoped account creation (Newsroom, Show Prep, Sales, or Full Access) with instant temp-password onboarding.

• Coverage Log — Automatic tracking of anchor substitutions and schedule coverage history.

  • Create a schedule & set up email prep package

• Voice Personas - Add extra voices to newscasts (for more on this story…) customizing different voices for each news anchor

• Field Reporter — A mobile-friendly portal for reporters to upload audio, video, or photos straight into the newsroom from the field.

• Customize Newscast Schedule - Top & bottom of the hour? Every 15 minutes? Schedule it so a reminder pops up for the anchor on shift

• Source Directory - Never lose important contacts again with a shared newsroom contact book for guests, experts, and recurring sources.

• Customize AI Writing style - customize how you want the AI to write newscasts and news articles. Guide it on how to prioritize stories in the news feed and more.

• Pop - Up Reminders - schedule pop up reminders to write news, post to social media & more

• Sales / Sponsors - add Sponsors to Traffic/Weather & more - 

• Sales Manager Access - showing sponsor-able avails.

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User Experience

• Weather - Prominent current temp & conditions at the top of the News Feed

• Theme - Change from light background to dark

• Font Size - increase or decrease font size

• Sound Effects -  Toggle on for subtle audio cues for breaking alerts and confirmations, so the newsroom feels alive without being noisy.

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Publish & Engage

• Interview Article Generator — Converts interview or podcast audio into a written article automatically.

  • Automatically post to your website from the platform once article is approved.

• Full Agentic Mode for News Articles - Vera will find local stories with more than one source, rewrite the story & post to your website automatically, based on your set schedule. It will also create a custom image for the post.

• Text/SMS Alerts — AI-drafted, priority-tagged breaking alerts ready to send to your listener text list.

• Social Publishing — Turns newscast stories into ready-to-post social content automatically.

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Show Prep

• Show Prep for Talent - News-Talk Radio, Sports-Talk Radio, Country DJ, Rock DJ, AC/Soft Rock DJ, Pop/Hits DJ, Hip-Hop DJ, Podcaster/Influencer/Creator

  • 9 Specific Pre-Curated Content Categories such as DIY, Real Estate Mental Health, Gaming & More

  • Daily Features Built In:

    • Good News

    • Dad Jokes

    • Random Facts

    • Today in History

    • Birthdays

    • Stories to Talk About (Weird or Bizarre)

• Creator Show Prep News Aggregator — Fresh, categorized talking points every day — trending topics, lifestyle, good news, seasonal content, and more — generated automatically. 

  • Add all of the sites you follow for show prep…in one place!

• One-Click Talking Points — Click any category to instantly generate ready-to-read angles and commentary for your show.

• Article Pool, Bank & Show Clock Flow - Show prep easier, by pooling articles you may be interested in discussing then move the ones you definitely want to cover in to the Show Clock, reorder them in the order you want to cover them or assign to specific segments, move articles you may want to cover another day to the Bank!

• Rundown Builder — Drag stories straight into a structured run-of-show for your program.

• Show Prep Teleprompter — A dedicated on-air prompter for show-prep-built content, with built-in AI voice playback for rehearsal.

• My Sources — A personal contact book for guests and recurring experts.

• Creator Command Center — A unified hub for managing your show's prep workflow end to end.

• Weather - Prominent current temp & conditions at the top of the News Feed

• Podcast Scanner - monitor your station’s podcasts & automatically provides transcript and important audio clips for talent to discuss

• Audio Import & Analyzer — Pull in audio from any URL or upload it directly; Vera transcribes it and extracts the newsworthy moments as ready-to-use clips.

• Article Analyzer - Upload a file, paste a URL or paste text to automatically analyzer ready for transcription for talent to discuss

• Finance Segment Builder — Curates business headlines for on-air market/finance segments.

• Sportscast Builder — Curates local sports headlines for on-air talent to discuss

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