Set up your first newsroom

A newsroom is one channel: its own sources, its own schedule, its own look. Set it up once and it produces videos on the times you choose.

Find it in the sidebar at Newsroom.

Nothing publishes without you unless you say so

Every video a newsroom makes lands in your dashboard. Auto-publishing to a social account is a separate switch you turn on deliberately.

The setup wizard

The first time you open Newsroom you’re walked through four steps.

1. Name

   “Think of a newsroom as one channel: its own sources, schedule, and style.”

   Something like Morning Tech Brief. You can change it later.

2. Brand kit

   Three ways to get your look in:

   Paste your website	Editory reads your homepage and builds an editable kit
   Upload a brand style guide	A PDF, brand board or logos; colours and fonts are extracted
   Customize manually	Start blank and set it by hand

   Optional. You can skip and come back.

3. Sources

   Paste a news site, your blog, or an RSS feed and press Find feed. Editory works out the best way to read it. See Sources for what the five-step check is doing.

   Also optional, and also skippable.

4. Schedule

   Pick a cadence (Daily, Weekly, When Available or Manual), then add a time for each post you want in a day, and a timezone.

   One time in the list is one post. Three times is three videos a day.

Press Create newsroom and you’re done.

Your progress is saved as you go

Leave halfway and come back and you’ll be where you left off, answers intact.

Straight after setup

Two things are worth doing before you wait for the schedule to fire.

1. Turn it on

A newsroom has an active toggle, and so does each series inside it. Both must be on for anything to run on a schedule.

New series start paused

This catches everyone. A newly created series (including the General one your newsroom starts with) is paused. If nothing is being produced, this is the first thing to check.

2. Try one by hand

Open the newsroom settings and press Run now for a one-off run, or use the dashboard’s Auto Generate on a single row. Much better to find out your sources or style are wrong now than at 6am.

The dashboard

Newsroom opens on a table where every row is one story on its way to becoming a video.

Column
Origin	Manual (you added it) or Scheduled (a run produced it)
Source	The article URL or text. Editable on manual rows, read-only on scheduled ones
Headline	The script’s title
Social Script	A preview once written; a progress pill while it’s being written; a Retry if it failed
Video	Edit, View and Download once rendered; Finalize plan when a cut exists but no file does
Performance	Instagram numbers, once you’ve connected an account
Created	Sortable

Generating a video from a row

Every generate control is a split button:

• Auto Generate: uses your saved defaults and runs unattended
• Customize: opens the full wizard so you can record or fine-tune

Auto Generate needs an AI voice

It can’t record for you, so it refuses unless your narration default is set to AI voiceover. The message tells you exactly what to change.

You can leave the page while things run. Progress is written as it happens, so coming back shows the true state.

Where to go next

SourcesWhere the stories come from, and what to do when a feed breaks.

SeriesRunning several formats out of one newsroom.

SchedulesPosting times, and how they map to output.

Style & brandWhat every video this newsroom makes looks like.