CHERTPRESS
العربية Capabilities

Newspaper · News agency · University network

Real reporting by students. Published, distributed, accountable.

CHERTPRESS is a bilingual journalism platform for media and press colleges. University bureaus report, the agency verifies and distributes, the newspaper publishes online and in a weekly edition — and other newsrooms receive it all through an API.

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Products
5
Lifecycle stages
10
Platform components
23
Languages
2

Who it is for

One newsroom, four ways in

Universities bring reporters. The agency turns their work into verified news. Publishers subscribe. Readers see every step.

Universities & colleges

Run your own bureaus inside a professional newsroom. Your students' private work stays inside your university until an editor sends it forward.

For universities

Students & instructors

Learn by doing the real job: pitch, report, photograph, verify, edit, lay out pages — and correct mistakes in public, with a portfolio to show for it.

How learning works

Newspapers & publishers

Subscribe to verified original reporting from university bureaus — in the agency portal or straight into your systems through the API.

For publishers

Readers

A bilingual newspaper that shows its work: who reported it, what changed and why, and every correction in plain sight.

Our standards

The story lifecycle

Every story follows the same journey — from a student's pitch to a reader's page.

Ten recorded stages. Each one has an accountable person, a time and a reason. Select a stage to see what happens — and which parts of CHERTPRESS make it work.

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Pitch

A reporter proposes a story

A student reporter pitches a story to their bureau. The bureau editor accepts, refines or returns it with a reason.

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Assign

Coverage is planned

The assignment links the bureau's work to the agency's coverage agenda: who, what, by when, with which media.

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Report

Interviews, photos, evidence

The reporter gathers evidence, interviews and media. Sources stay in the private vault; only publishable attribution moves forward.

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Bureau review

The bureau editor submits

The bureau editor reviews the package and submits a fixed version to the agency. Submission is not publication.

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Edit

Agency editors take over

Agency editors edit on the desk, request more reporting or return the story — every change attributed, every reason recorded.

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Verify

Claims checked against evidence

Verification editors check disputed facts against the evidence before anything can be approved.

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Release

An immutable, versioned release

A designated editor approves. The registry stores the release with its version, credits and rights; embargo controls the time, not the approval.

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Publish & print

Online today, in print this week

Newspaper editors adapt the story for readers online, and production staff place a frozen version in the weekly edition.

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Interactive architecture

Every layer of CHERTPRESS — and the component that runs it

Select any component to learn what it does, or play a journey and watch a story move through the platform.

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Universities & bureaus

Where reporting starts: university-scoped workspaces for students and their editors.

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Editorial production

The agency and newspaper desks: plan, edit, verify and approve.

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Release & rights

Approved stories become immutable, versioned releases with rights attached.

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Publish & distribute

Five products reach readers, subscribers, printers and other newsrooms.

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Identity & isolation

One sign-in; each university, desk and subscriber sees only its own.

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Integration & operations

Every hand-off is recorded, retried and reconciled.

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Five products, one platform

A newspaper, an agency, a correspondent network, a weekly edition and a data feed

Each product has its own audience and its own responsibilities. One sign-in and one release registry connect them.

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The Newspaper

A professional Arabic and English newspaper, updated continuously: sections, authors, photography and multimedia, search, archives, correction notices and weekly edition pages.

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The News Agency

Original reporting from university bureaus — text, photography, video, audio and graphics — planned, verified and released to subscribing publishers with rights and attribution.

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The Correspondent Network

University bureaus of student reporters, photographers, bureau editors and instructors, each in its own private workspace — with assignments, evidence, review and portfolios.

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The Weekly Edition

Plan the issue, keep the story budget, compose pages in a professional layout studio, approve proofs and release print-ready and reader editions with full source lineage.

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Publisher Data Feeds

An authenticated API for other newspapers: search, incremental feeds, multimedia packages, versioned releases, entitlements, corrections and delivery records — in JSON and NewsML-G2.

One story, linked versions

Nothing is overwritten. Every hand-off is its own record.

A bureau submission, an agency release, a newspaper article and a print placement are separate records, each with its own owner and version — linked from source to page.

  1. Bureau submissionv3 · private until sent
  2. Agency storyedited · verified
  3. Agency releasev1 → v2 corrected
  4. Newspaper articleown headline · linked to v2
  5. Print placementpage 3 · frozen version
  6. Released issueNo. 12 · immutable

When the agency corrects a release, the newspaper gets a review task — it is never silently overwritten — and any open edition using the old version is blocked.

Why CHERTPRESS

Built so that learning, journalism and accountability stay connected

Arabic and English, equally

Arabic is a first-class language from the reporter's draft to the printed page: proper typography, linked translations and search tested in both languages.

Real reporting, supervised

Students do the real work; instructors supervise learning; designated editors alone decide what is published.

Every version kept

Bureau submission, agency release, newspaper article and print placement are separate, linked records — never one row overwritten.

Rights before reach

Credits, permitted use and subscriber entitlements are checked on every preview, search and download.

Corrections that travel

One approved correction updates the portal, the website and the API, notifies subscribers and stops a stale page from going to print.

Open source, self-hosted

Built on intact, stable open-source engines, integrated only through their supported interfaces, and run on CHERT's own servers.

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Find the part of CHERTPRESS that is yours

UniversitiesBureaus, roles, learning and isolation PublishersAgency products, the API and corrections CapabilitiesEverything the five products do Saudi ArabiaBuilt for Arabic-first media education TrustStandards, rights, privacy and security

Bring your college into the newsroom.

CHERTPRESS is being built now. Media colleges and publishers can shape the first cohort.

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