Break Stories Faster.
Eliminate Newsroom Admin Drag.
Stop losing 25+ hours a week formatting CMS drafts in WordPress or Ghost, monitoring wire feeds on AP/Reuters, assembling daily email newsletters in Beehiiv, tagging SEO meta descriptions, and moderating toxic comment sections. Get a newsroom-literate operations assistant supervised by your dedicated Project Manager at zero extra cost.
Focus on Scoops, Investigations & Editorial Voice
Single Dedicated Project Manager
Your PM coordinates deadline queues, verifies AP Stylebook adherence, tracks newsletter release times, and enforces editorial SOPs.
Publishing Ecosystem Fluency
Native proficiency in WordPress VIP, Ghost, Substack, Beehiiv, Chartbeat, Parse.ly, AP Stylebook, and Canva.
Strict Productive Time Billing
No inflated agency placement markups or journalist recruiter cuts. Pay purely for productive minutes logged on production.
Daily Native Fluency Across Essential Publishing CMS, Newsletter, Analytics & Newsroom Software
What Your News Publisher Virtual Assistant Executes Daily
Editors-in-chief, digital newsroom directors, and independent publishers should spend their prime energy directing investigative reporting, landing major interviews, and breaking high-impact exclusives. Delegate wire triage, CMS staging, newsletter production, and community moderation to vetted media specialists.
Wire Triage & Press Release Scrubbing
Never miss breaking alerts or regional developments. We monitor incoming wire dispatches on AP, Reuters, PR Newswire, government newsrooms, and police blotters, flagging high-priority news scoops for editor assignment.
- ✔ Monitoring wire terminals and embargoed news release alerts
- ✔ Filtering spam pitches from verified public agency press statements
- ✔ Assembling initial background facts, timelines & source citations
CMS Formatting & Rich Media Staging
Keep your article publication cadence seamless. We take reporter drafts, paste and format clean typography in WordPress VIP or Ghost, insert licensed stock photography, embed X/Instagram posts, and configure pull quotes.
- ✔ Staging drafts in Gutenberg/Ghost with clean headers and breaks
- ✔ Inserting licensed Getty/Shutterstock imagery with attribution credits
- ✔ Embedding YouTube video players, social embeds & audio podcasts
AP Style Copy Editing & Search SEO
Protect your journalistic credibility and organic search visibility. We proofread text against the latest Associated Press (AP) Stylebook rules, optimize meta descriptions, write keyword-rich slugs, and add descriptive image alt tags.
- ✔ Enforcing AP Style capitalization, numerals, titles & punctuation
- ✔ Writing click-worthy, search-optimized meta titles and descriptions
- ✔ Populating schema tags, Google Discover criteria & image alt text
Daily Newsletter Assembly & Delivery
Ensure your morning and evening subscriber digests land right on time. We curate top stories into Beehiiv, Substack, or Mailchimp, format sponsor banner insertions, perform link audits, and schedule morning blast runs.
- ✔ Curating 5-minute morning digests with crisp executive summaries
- ✔ Inserting paid sponsor text ads, tracking UTM links & disclosures
- ✔ Verifying render compatibility across mobile, Gmail & Apple Mail
Breaking News Social Pushes & Quote Cards
Drive instant traffic surges to newly published articles. We create branded graphic quote cards in Canva, draft engaging hook copy for X (Twitter), LinkedIn, and Threads, and broadcast push notifications to readers.
- ✔ Generating branded breaking news banners and quote graphics
- ✔ Scheduling multi-platform social posts with UTM tracking parameters
- ✔ Triggering browser push notifications via OneSignal or PushEngage
Comment Moderation & Contributor Invoicing
Keep your reader community civil and contributor operations streamlined. We moderate reader comments in Disqus or Coral, flag defamation risks, log freelance article submissions, and verify writer payment invoices.
- ✔ Scrubbing hate speech, spam & libelous remarks in comment threads
- ✔ Triage of reader feedback, tip lines & typo correction emails
- ✔ Matching freelance reporter word counts against approved rate cards
How SageDoer Works for News Publishers
From editorial guidelines to daily newsroom execution—completely hands-off with zero supervisory headache for editors-in-chief and media founders.
Phase 1: Submit Requirements
Share your daily article output volume, CMS setup (WordPress VIP, Ghost), newsletter frequency (Beehiiv, Substack), shift schedules, and production bottlenecks via WhatsApp, Form, or Email.
Phase 2: Finalise the Deal
Our dedicated project manager meets with you to review style guides (AP Stylebook variations), role-based CMS permissions, NDA confidentiality, and headline publishing protocols.
Phase 3: Expert Execution
Your project manager coordinates your virtual assistant daily, spot-checking staged articles, auditing photo attribution metadata, reviewing newsletter test sends, and enforcing deadlines.
Phase 4: Pay Only for Output
We log and charge exclusively for the assistant's actual working time. Your dedicated project manager's editorial supervision is 100% free.
Simple, Predictable Hourly Rates. No Retainers.
Pay strictly for hours of real newsroom operational support. Your dedicated Project Manager's oversight is 100% free.
Part-Time
Perfect for independent digital newsletters, niche trade journals & regional blogs publishing 3–6 articles daily.
- ✔ Pay only for hours of pure work
- ✔ Dedicated Project Manager included
- ✔ Free management supervision
- ✔ Zero setup or onboarding fees
- ✔ No monthly membership charges
Full-Time
For high-cadence digital publications, breaking news portals, daily morning newsletters & multi-desk media brands.
- ✔ Pay only for hours of pure work
- ✔ Dedicated Project Manager included
- ✔ Free management supervision
- ✔ Zero setup or onboarding fees
- ✔ No monthly membership charges
Why News Publishers Choose SageDoer
Freelance job boards pass all hiring, training, and editorial QA risk onto busy news editors. SageDoer delivers fully supervised newsroom administration.
| Feature | Traditional Freelance Platforms | The Smart Choice: SageDoer |
|---|---|---|
| Platform & Management Fees | Up to 40% in hidden markups, bidding, and memberships | 0% Hidden Fees. Pay strictly for hours worked. |
| Daily Team Management | You must juggle and supervise multiple freelancers between breaking deadlines | Dedicated Project Manager acts as your single point of contact |
| Quality Assurance | Hit-or-miss talent with no background in AP Stylebook, SEO meta tags, or newsletter tools | Internally vetted, rigorously trained digital publishing production experts |
| Hiring & Deployment Speed | Endless cycles of interviewing and testing candidates during election and peak news cycles | Instant delegation. We immediately assign the right specialist. |
| Billing & Invoicing | Complex, multi-freelancer invoices with currency headaches for editorial accounting | Simple, unified, centralised USD invoicing |
| Staff Turnover & Replacements | Start the hiring and onboarding process all over again when a remote assistant leaves | Seamless internal replacements with zero newsroom workflow disruption |
Trusted by Independent Publications & Digital Media Groups
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"We publish 18 to 25 articles every day across local politics and business. Staging Word documents into WordPress VIP, finding licensed Getty photos, and writing SEO snippets used to keep our senior editors working until 9 PM. SageDoer stages every piece flawlessly to AP Style. We cut production turnaround time by 60%!"
"Our daily morning briefing newsletter on Beehiiv goes out to 62,000 tech subscribers at 6:30 AM EST. Our SageDoer assistant pulls top scoops, curates blurbs, verifies sponsor links, and runs render tests every night. It has been 100% on time without a single broken link for eight straight months."
"Having a dedicated Project Manager oversee our wire news triage, quote card design in Canva, and social syndication at $6/hour has saved our digital newsroom over $50,000 compared to hiring junior production desk staffers in London or New York."
"Comment moderation on our investigative stories was becoming a legal and emotional minefield for our reporters. SageDoer's team monitors Coral comments 7 days a week, scrubbing spam, hate speech, and defamation before it becomes an issue. Truly indispensable."
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