Cover every meeting. Not just the ones you can staff.
GovWire turns any public meeting into a searchable transcript, an editorial brief, and filing-ready articles. Your reporters spend their hours on the work that actually needs a reporter.
The problem
A council meeting runs three hours. Your newsroom has one reporter free.
Public meetings are where local decisions actually get made: budgets, zoning, school policy, police contracts. They are also long, frequent, and thinly attended by the press. As newsroom budgets shrink, this is the coverage that gets cut first, and whole communities slide into news deserts.
GovWire attends the meeting so your staff does not have to. We built it with editors, for the way a newsroom actually works: you get the raw material and the first drafts, you make every editorial call, and your reporters get their week back.
How it works
From meeting video to filed story, without the all-nighter.
GovWire is a wire service. We do the listening and the first drafts. You do the journalism.
01 · Capture
We listen so you don't have to sit through it.
Point GovWire at a meeting, or let our listeners detect it automatically from the clerk's livestream or municipal video portal. We ingest the full session from YouTube, Granicus, Zoom, and other sources.
02 · Transcribe & brief
A searchable record and an editorial brief.
A speaker-labeled transcript, then an editorial brief: summary, key themes, points of disagreement, notable quotes, outcomes, and the news angles worth chasing. Every claim ties back to the moment in the audio it came from.
03 · Draft & publish
Filing-ready drafts, in your voice.
Focused articles per story, grounded in the transcript, ready for your editor. Need more reach? The same meeting becomes a podcast segment or a short social video. You choose what to use and what to publish.
What you get
One meeting. Whatever your newsroom can use.
From a single session, GovWire produces the full set below. Take the transcript for research, run the brief past your editor, file the article under your byline, or push a clip to social. You decide.
- TranscriptSpeaker-labeled, searchable, timestamped
- Editorial briefSummary, themes, quotes, angles, outcomes
- ArticlesFiling-ready drafts, one per story
- PodcastAn audio segment from the meeting
- Short videoVertical social clips for reach
Queens Community Board erupts in debate over Citi Field casino proposal.
Corona, NY (GovWire) — A proposal to build a casino near Citi Field ignited a firestorm of debate at a community board meeting Thursday night, with residents and board members clashing over the potential benefits and risks of the Mets-backed “Queens Future” project.
“This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform the area around Citi Field.”— Mike Sullivan, Chief of Staff, NY Mets
Transcript · public hearing
Case study · Epicenter NYC
A three-hour hearing, covered with no reporter in the room.
Epicenter NYC, a nonprofit newsroom, came to us with an urgent problem. A contested casino development was going to a vote at a Queens Community Board 3 meeting, and they had no reporter free to sit through it. The session ran three hours and thirteen minutes on YouTube.
GovWire processed the livestream into a full transcript in under five minutes, then a briefing document, a filed article, and a podcast segment. Epicenter used the summary directly in their published coverage.
“We are so grateful for this tool.”
Epicenter used GovWire to fact-check, organize the key information, and produce a first draft fast enough to make their coverage window. She wrote up the experience in a public “lessons learned” post on LinkedIn.
Who's behind it
Built by media and technology leaders who have run newsrooms and platforms.
Twenty years leading transformation at complex global organizations, including Merck, Microsoft, and Corning. The last decade in media: VP & Chief Architect at NBCUniversal, then CTO of the WNET Group, PBS's flagship station.
Thirty years of technology leadership across manufacturing, media, and software. A track record of large-scale IT initiatives and high-performing teams, for both startups and Fortune 500 companies.
Request a demo
Bring us a meeting. We'll show you the wire.
Tell us the beat you can't staff, and we'll run a real meeting from your coverage area through GovWire so you can see the transcript, brief, and drafts for yourself.
- Built for independent and nonprofit newsrooms
- You keep the byline and the editorial call
- No commitment to see a sample run