How Live Blog works
With minute-by-minute text, image and video updates, as well as social media posts, you will connect with your readers.
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Start your liveblog coverage in seconds
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
Highlight and pin posts
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.
Include Social Media
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
Deliver a multimedia experience
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.
Engage the news community
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
You’re in good company
Join the exclusive club
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“With Live Blog we have found a robust, open and flexible tool for live coverages and with Sourcefabric a reliable development partner, who knows how to turn journalistic business models into future proof technology.”
- Christoph Dernbach, Editor-in-chief of Netzwelt and Managing Director of dpa-Infocom
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“We were very happy to discover Sourcefabric Live Blog.”
- Pihla Lehmusjoki, head of media services, STT-Lehtikuva
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“Sourcefabric has developed a brilliant and super flexible live blogging platform that allows us to experiment with different ways of sharing information in real time. Being able to embed and pin live video is awesome!”
- Jenni Sargent, First Draft News
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“We are a weekly publication that is in need of methods to increase our audience, influence and revenue, Live Blog is the tool we need to be more in daily contact with our readers.”
- Miguel Mora, founder and editor-in-chief of CTXT.es
See how it all connects
Our live blogging platform is built by journalists for journalists. Learn all about it in two minutes.
Simple monthly or annual plans – No contracts
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.
Open source innovation
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:
Lean on me
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.
Mobile app, responsive themes
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.
Use any content management system
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.
Start your own live coverage success story.
“We were very happy to discover Sourcefabric Live Blog.”
— Pihla Lehmusjoki, head of media services, STT-Lehtikuva
* We don’t share your personal info with anyone. Check our terms of use for more information.
That’s not all…
Discover all of our features and learn how to use them by downloading our user manual.
Social media posts
Support
Image slideshows
Rich media posts
Native ads
Score cards
User comments
Statistics
Theme manager
Mobile app
Video streams
Custom post types
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