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Live Blog is an open source blogging platform for moment-by-moment live coverage of breaking news, made for professional journalists. Give your readers minute-by-minute updates with all types of social and rich media snippets. On site, on the ground, in real time.
When news breaks your tools should never slow you down. Live Blog is fast, intuitive and flexible, letting journalists do their best when they arrive on the scene.
Live coverage drives big audiences to your site. Grow your revenue with native and automated advertising opportunities and gain insight into your reach with comprehensive metrics.
Election ahead? Place your live coverage at the center of a regional, national or global content network through Live Blog’s syndication feature. Collaborate with other news organisations and succeed together.
Breaking news? Name your blog, invite a team of editors and contributors. Copy the embed code of your blog into your CMS. That’s it. Nothing to download, nothing to configure.
1. Start liveblogging
2. Set up
3. Publish
1. Shot on goal
2. Pin post
3. Publish and highlight
Ongoing coverage? Keep key moments pinned at the top and highlighted for clarity. With the Live Blog timeline, readers can catch up on your coverage anytime.
Big event? Enhance your live coverage with likes, tweets, photos and social media posts. Just drop the links or embed codes into the editor and watch as user-generated content integrates seamlessly with your liveblog.
1. Social event
2. Audience reaction
3. Curate and publish
1. Beautiful images
2. Create gallery
3. Publish multimedia
Live coverage? Add image slideshows, video streams and other types of multimedia to your feed. With our live blogging platform, you’ll always have the latest technology to engage your audience.
Real time coverage? Live Blog’s commenting function lets you incorporate direct feedback in real time – including eyewitness reports. Inform your readers as the story evolves.
1. Collect comments
2. Moderate comments
3. Publish
- Christoph Dernbach, Editor-in-chief of Netzwelt and Managing Director of dpa-Infocom
- Pihla Lehmusjoki, head of media services, STT-Lehtikuva
- Jenni Sargent, First Draft News
- Miguel Mora, founder and editor-in-chief of CTXT.es
Our live blogging platform is built by journalists for journalists. Learn all about it in two minutes.
Special introductory offer:
Start your Live Blog with a 7-day free trial – plus, get 50% off your first month.
It´s a B2B product. All prices are exclusive of VAT where applicable. Live Blog has no setup fee or costs per view.
It can take up to 24 hrs (Mo-Fr) for your Live Blog instance to be set-up.
Whatever subscription level suits you best – you will always benefit from the full feature set of Live Blog for one, three or an unlimited number of active blogs. Blogs are “active” as long as you are updating them. As soon as your last post has been written you can archive the blog and create a new one.
Darko is a professional new media designer and 3D artist from Belgrade, Serbia. He is responsible for the user experience of Live Blog. And whereas others deliver designs to make a tool intuitive to use – he is heading for bigger aims and makes it: fun to use.
Based on his foundational concepts and wireframes Live Blog was developed 4 years ago. And, being known as a passionate marathon runner, he is still on it. He currently oversees the development of a set of new features cofinanced from the Google DNI.
Based in Cluj and a sports gun shooter. He is the one who knows what it needs to hit a target – as developer and scrum facilitator of the team he makes sure we will reach our goals on time and in budget.
Based in Cluj Rumania, father of a little daughter. He is the one who knows every single line of code written for this project by name. Whatever issue there is – he will fix it. Backend, frontend – happy end.
He always wears black and his Pull Request are often sent long after midnight. However, looking at his code, created in the dark shadows of his black screen, feels like witnessing the beauty of a sunrise after a long dark night.
Is a journalist by heart. He is curious and not to stop until he knows what is behind things. If we work on new features, he is the one who puts the editor glasses on and insists on a user experience that is not only good, but actually “fun to use”.
Live Blog is made by Sourcefabric, Europe’s largest developer of open source tools for news media. Key features have been developed with the support of Google’s Digital News Initiative (DNI) Innovation Fund, and partners such as Deutsche Presse Agentur (dpa) in Germany and Agencia EFE in Spain.
Our live blogging tools are supported by:
Sourcefabric’s support team of on-call experts will make sure that your support tickets are taken care of immediately and you can focus on what you do best – live reporting.
With our mobile reporter app, you can publish your texts and images directly from your phone to your website. All Live Blog themes are responsive and optimized for mobile usage.
Our open source live blogging tool is a team player. WordPress, Drupal, Joomla or your organisation’s own CMS – just embed the link to your blog and you’re ready to publish.
“We were very happy to discover Sourcefabric Live Blog.”
— Pihla Lehmusjoki, head of media services, STT-Lehtikuva
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