Surf Newsroom
Your newsroom. Built for the way local newspapers work.
Bring writing, editing, scheduling, authors and digital editions into one connected editorial workspace designed for community newspaper teams.
Newsroom Snapshot
Surf NewsroomA better place to start the day
Give your staff a newsroom, not an administration screen.
Generic content management systems make reporters and editors navigate around the software. Surf Newsroom organizes everyday publishing work around the people and stories that matter.
Staff can find recent content, return to a draft, begin a story, manage authors, prepare an e-edition and review scheduled content from one clear workspace.
- See recent, draft and scheduled content
- Write and edit articles in a focused editorial workflow
- Manage author profiles and story bylines
- Upload and organize e-editions
- Work from a desktop, tablet or phone
One Story. One Workflow.
ConnectedEditorial capabilities
Everything your newsroom needs to keep publishing.
Surf Newsroom brings the daily work of local journalism into a practical workspace that is easy for staff to understand and use.
Newsroom Dashboard
Begin with a clear view of recent stories, drafts, scheduled content and the tools your staff uses most often.
Article Editing
Create and update stories in an editorial experience shaped for newspaper publishing instead of a generic website backend.
Draft Management
Find unfinished stories quickly and return to work without searching through the entire content library.
Publication Scheduling
Prepare stories in advance and control when completed content appears on your newspaper website.
Author Profiles
Manage writer biographies, photos and contact or social details, then connect each story to the right byline.
E-Edition Management
Upload and organize newspaper editions from the same environment your staff already uses for digital publishing.
A clearer daily workflow
Spend more time on the story and less time navigating the CMS.
Common editorial tasks stay visible and connected, helping reporters and editors move work forward without unnecessary steps.
Find Work Quickly
Move directly to recent content, drafts and scheduled stories from a dashboard designed around everyday newsroom priorities.
Keep Details Together
Maintain the story, author, media and publication settings in one connected editorial process.
Publish From Anywhere
Use the mobile-friendly newsroom to handle essential publishing work from a desktop, tablet or phone.
Publish Everywhere
Create the story once. Prepare it for every place readers find you.
Surf Newsroom serves as the editorial center of the Surf CMS platform, connecting the content your staff creates with your publication's supported digital destinations.
Available destinations and automation depend on the Surf products and integrations included with your publication.
AI assistance for the newsroom
Helpful tools, with your staff still in control.
When enabled for your publication, Surf's AI assistant can help with supported content-preparation tasks inside the editorial workflow. Your newsroom reviews the work and decides what gets published.
The goal is not to replace reporters or editors. It is to reduce repetitive work and give local journalists better publishing tools.
Assist, do not replace
Keep editorial judgment and publication decisions with your newsroom.
Work where stories are written
Use available assistance within the connected publishing workflow.
Review before publishing
Let staff verify, revise and approve content before it reaches readers.
Configured for your publication
AI availability and supported tasks depend on your Surf CMS setup.
Built for local journalism
Not another generic content-management system.
Surf Newsroom is designed around community newspaper staff, editorial routines and the realities of publishing local news.
Newspaper-Focused
Work with language and publishing tools that make sense to reporters, editors and local newspaper teams.
Made for the Whole Team
Give newsroom staff one shared place to create content, manage writers and prepare upcoming publication work.
Part of Surf CMS
Connect editorial work with the website and supported digital publishing tools used by the rest of your organization.
Everything works together
Surf Newsroom is part of the complete Surf CMS platform.
Bring editorial publishing together with the tools that support the rest of your newspaper's digital operation.
A better newsroom starts here
Give your staff a simpler way to publish.
Already a Surf New Media publisher? Ask us about Surf Newsroom for your publication.