Digital-first
story-centric newsroom system

Saga is a story-centric rundown tool that checks off all you need for a modern newsroom workflow tool. 

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Saga is a story-centric rundown tool that checks off all you need for a modern newsroom workflow tool:

• A new generation rundown and publishing system.
• Runs in a browser from anywhere. 
• It enables the entire newsroom to collaborate.
• Publishes to any platform.
• Cloud-native without the need for on-premise hardware.

We have launched the perfect match for broadcasters ready to move to modern web-based workflows, Software-as-a-Service, and the cloud. Saga Rundown is a stand-alone rundown tool for linear production. 

Saga Rundown is built on the proven technologies of Saga, a full-fledged story-centric newsroom tool.

Saga has an integrated planning module for stories, where the journalists have complete control over what stories are planned for publishing, where they will get published, and when. With Saga, journalists can create story suggestions and pitch these in an internal story marketplace, allowing the editorial staff to work more efficiently and transparently.

Collaborate & Collect Resources

Saga is built for story collaboration, transparency and for sharing of resources. When creating a story in Saga, the journalist can add collaborators, collect resources from connected news service feeds, add suggested videos and images, and more, all within one user interface.

Saga Mobile allows journalists to create and publish stories in the field, with a live link into the newsroom to track schedules and control when a story goes live. Other future features of the app will be uploading media content to stories, writing, editing, taking photos and videos, and publishing. 

Users who usually use the Saga web browser interface will find the app interface familiar and easy to use. Journalists and storytellers can swap between the web interface and the app for their story creation, planning and publishing to linear/live shows, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, web CMS systems, and other destinations.

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Saga integrates with cloud media management and video production system Mimir. Journalists can search their media archives for images and videos and add them to their stories in an easy-to-use interface.

Mimir has a range of integrated AI technologies for automatic metadata logging, object detection, speech-to-text transcription, translations, etc. This allows Saga users to search for spoken words in a video clip before adding the relevant clip to a story. Learn more about Mimir here. 

Saga is a true story-centric solution built for planning, creating and publishing stories for multiple platforms within one user interface. With Saga, you can create versions of your stories for various social media platforms, post to websites (CMS), or rundowns for linear production, all from an easy-to-use interface.

Coming up in Saga is a feature for automatically suggesting story versions fitted for social media platforms, such as Twitter, Instagram, Facebook etc. The Saga user can edit any AI-generated suggestions before publishing, completely controlling all editorial content.

Saga integrates with graphics systems, MAM systems, automation systems, booking and resource systems, etc. Saga can easily be integrated with APIs for publishing to Content Management Systems (CMS), LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms. A journalist can tailor a story instance to a specific platform with these integrations.