Know if a story is worth a pitch
Paste a breaking-news URL. Newshog scores the newsjack opportunity, hands you the sharpest angles, and drafts a pitch a journalist would actually open. About thirty seconds.
Story is 41 minutes old, three tier-1 outlets are chasing follow-ups, and nobody in your category has commented yet.
- Velocity
- Angle fit
- Crowding
- Shelf life
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No dashboard tour, no onboarding call. One URL in, one verdict out — with the angles and the pitch already written.
SMB compliance bill clears committee
Reuters · 41 min ago · Analyzed in 28s
Three tier-1 outlets filed within 40 minutes — the follow-up window opens tonight.
Zero vendor commentary in coverage so far. The expert slot is empty.
Search interest for “compliance deadline” up 340% since 9:04 ET.
Expected shelf life: 3 days. Pitch before Monday and you're late.
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Newshog watches 1,900 outlets and every byline on them, so the score reflects what editors are actually chasing right now not what trended last quarter.
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journalist beats mapped
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Score the story with the whole room in context.
Quick score reads one article. Deep Research reads the room around it: recent coverage, who else is writing on the space, and whether the angle is crowded or first then feeds that into the same score, angles, and pitch.
This is the 4th similar launch this month novelty is low, score should reflect a crowded take.
Saturation check
Axios Pro, The Information and two trade desks already filed on the space in the last 14 days.
Who's writing on it
The angle "compliance bill nobody costed" isn't covered yet first-to-claim justifies a higher score.
Fresh ground
The novelty lever
With five comparable launches this week, research drops that score below the pack. First-to-cover? It pushes the other way.
Searches live coverage
Recent articles, comparable launches, and who already filed — not just your one URL.
Fans out the research
Independent threads run in parallel: what's new, who wrote it, and why now.
Verify, then cite
Every claim is grounded in a source excerpt; the top few surface in your verdict.
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- Angles, why-now & velocity
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Somebody is pitching this story. Might as well be you.
Paste a link. Get the verdict before the news cycle moves on.