Or search everything below. Type what you want to do; the list filters as you type. Press Ask and the desk answers from these notes and points at the exact control. Sign in and every link opens your own paper.
How do I write my first article by hand?
Four steps. On the desk, press + New piece, give it a headline, choose News or Blog, and press Create; it opens as a draft. Click the byline to pick the writer. Open the Corpus tab on the right, search the fact record, and press Cite on each fact you want the piece to stand on. Then open the Copilot tab, press Write from my sources, and Apply to the page. Edit, and publish when it is ready.
The desk →Why will my own article not publish? It says it stands on 0 sources.
A news piece must stand on sources you placed. If it is your own writing, an opinion or a company post, click the small chip next to the headline that says news and flip it to blog. A blog piece publishes without a source floor and carries the Opinion label.
The desk →How do I put my paper on my own domain?
On the Publisher plan and above. Open Your own domain and type the address under Your own address. You add one record at your registrar and the certificate is ours: a subdomain (news.example.org) is one CNAME to cname.newsroomfloor.com, which any registrar allows; an apex (example.org) is a nameserver change to the two names the page shows, which every registrar allows. The page reads serving on its own, usually within minutes for a CNAME and within the hour of the nameserver change reaching the registry. Nobody attaches anything by hand. Your newsroomfloor.com address keeps working.
Your own domain →How do I know my domain is pointed at Newsroom Floor?
Open Your own domain. Each domain you added carries its live state in Cloudflare's own words (waiting on your CNAME, record seen and the certificate on its way, waiting on your nameservers, serving, or stopped with the reason) and a Check now button; the floor re-reads every pending domain every five minutes on its own, so you never have to come back. Above that, every address shows what DNS says a moment ago and how many readers arrived on it today.
Your own domain →Is there a page I can read or send that explains putting my paper on my own domain?
Yes, the full walkthrough is one public page. It covers what you get, the two ways to point an address (a subdomain is one CNAME; a whole domain is a nameserver change), the one record you add at your registrar, and what we handle for you. Send the link to whoever manages your DNS.
How to wire your domain →Where is my paper's landing page?
Every public paper has one at /subscribe on its own address (yourpaper.newsroomfloor.com/subscribe, or your own domain). It says what the paper is and hands a reader every way to get it: the paper, the email briefing, the video edition, the podcast feed, RSS, the API, and the agent edition. /channel and /about lead there too.
The catalog →How do alerts work, and can they reach my own system?
An alert is a watch you set on a paper: every story as it runs (instant), a daily or weekly briefing, only the sections you name, and the video edition when it posts. It reaches you by email, and, if you give an https address, every alert is also POSTed there as JSON (paper, cadence, sections, the stories with their links, the video) with an HMAC-SHA256 of the body under X-NRF-Signature, keyed by a signing key that is yours: the subscribe API answers with it as webhook_secret, and your alert settings page shows it. Set it on the paper's channel page under Alerts, on your own alert settings page, or by API: POST /api/v1/subscribers with {email, cadence, sections, cast, webhook}; a desk key can add up to 20 readers at once at /api/v1/subscribers. Nobody is alerted until they confirm.
Help →Does my paper have its own API?
Yes, on its own address, with a front door built for it. /api is the gateway: what the API is, the base address, your first call in cURL, JavaScript and Python, every door grouped with a live try-it panel, four things to build, the three lanes, and the house rules. /api/v1 is the index that names every door as a link: stories with their cited facts, sections, the archive by day, search, the front as JSON, the video editions, subscribe, and an OpenAPI document at /api/v1/openapi.json. No key needed for a public paper. A desk key from Desk settings opens the private lane on the same address. If the paper publishes in Spanish, the whole gateway is in Spanish.
The API gateway →Can I put one of my stories on another website?
Yes. Open /api on your paper's own address and scroll to the embed section: pick a story, and it writes the code. Paste it into a blog post, a docs page or a client's site. The card shows the headline, the picture, the byline and your paper's name, and every part links back to you. It sets no cookies. If the other site strips scripts, use the first version, which is a single tag. And in WordPress, Ghost or Notion you can skip the code altogether: paste the story link and it becomes the card by itself.
The API gateway →Can I post my paper's stories to social media?
Your paper's address serves /api/v1/posts: every piece on air as a ready-to-post short form, sized for X, with the story link and picture. Point a scheduler or an automation at it, or copy from it. Nothing there is written by a model; it is the headline, the dek when it fits, and the link.
The API gateway →How do I post the day's news or the video to X automatically?
Open Desk settings and pick the Post to X tab. Link your X account to your login (one click; you come straight back), then tick Post the day's news, Post the video of the day, or both, and save. The paper posts once a day as you, when the edition and the video are up. Post today's news now and Test without posting are on the same tab, and every post is listed with its link.
Post to X →Can I see who is using my Signal Desk?
Yes. Analytics on your desk draws the desk's own shape: signed-in reads by day, the signals readers open most and how often they take a quick look, what they open (the front, Data, About, API, signal pages), the watch sections they pick, searches by day with the mean number of hits, the digests sent and to how many readers, what their DRM3 bells said, invites sent, the roster and seats, and readers active in the last 7 and 30 days, with each feed's records and signals. The sign-in wall is never counted, a reader is counted by a hash of their account id and never by name or address, and a search is counted by its length and its hits, never its words. An agent reads the same numbers with desk_analytics.
Analytics →What are the Data, About and API pages on my Signal Desk?
The desk's reader pages, linked in the rail under the header on every page. The front carries one line of facts (feeds, records, signals, coverage, Private) and the signals. Data is the provenance: one card per feed with the supplier, how it arrives, the dataset, its records and signals, the last delivery read, and the tag readers see on a card. About is what the desk is: jurisdictions, the bodies that met, the date range, the owner, the private clause, and how access works. API is what a reader can read by machine on the desk's own address, listing only the doors that answer. All three sit behind the same sign-in wall as the front, and the preview shows the same pages.
Signal Desk settings →My paper is about one law or one trade and it keeps printing the whole industry. How do I keep it on the beat?
A subject only ever pulls facts in, so a trade's own words (shipbuilding, tanker, port, dredging) claim every yard, ship and harbour on earth. Open Desk settings, Coverage, the Markers segment. List the words that can only mean your desk (for a paper on the Jones Act: Jones Act, cabotage, coastwise, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Alaska, Matson, MARAD, the American yards and ports) and turn on Every fact must carry a marker. From then on a fact that names none of them never reaches the desk, whatever else it says, while shipbuilding and tankers still count when they are yours. Before you save, press Measure against today's record on the Subjects segment: every word shows how many facts it claims today and how many of those carry a marker, and the wide ones turn the warning colour with one button to remove them.
Markers →