The Watches · free daily briefs
Every beat's public record, read before you are.
Regulators, ministries, bill trackers and court lists. Each Watch clusters the day's filings into one brief and names every source. RegWatch, LawWatch and PolicyWatch are live now; six more are on the way. One free registration covers up to five beats.
- Live · daily brief
RegWatch
Markets and regulation. SEBI, RBI, enforcement actions and corporate filings, read every day.
SEBIRBIFilings - Live · daily brief
PolicyWatch
Bills before parliament, ministry consultations and the legislative calendar.
BillsMinistriesConsultations - Live · daily brief
LawWatch
Judgments, cause lists, tribunal orders and the commissions that report to parliament.
CourtsTribunalsCommissions - Coming soon
TechWatch
Technology policy where it hits the newsroom. Platform rules, data protection and AI policy.
MeitYData protectionAI policy - Coming soon
ParliamentWatch
Parliamentary intelligence, India and the world. Questions and answers, bills and their progress.
Lok SabhaUK ParliamentUS Congress - Coming soon
BizWatch
Markets and business. Central banks, corporate filings and federal rulemaking.
Federal ReserveSEC filingsFederal Register - Coming soon
EUWatch
The EU and UK primary record. The ECB, the Commission, Parliament and the statute books.
ECBEUR-LexEurostat - Coming soon
ChinaWatch
The official English record from Beijing and Hong Kong, and from Global South governments and blocs.
BeijingHong KongGlobal South - Coming soon
ClimateWatch
Disaster alerts, earth observation and the climate record of Global South blocs and regional centres.
GDACSNASA EONETRegional centres
One registration. Up to five beats. Free for working journalists.
Register to read →Tools for each step
From the first signal to the story that travels.
Use one or use them all. Each tool has its own site with pricing and a free way in.
- 1Plan the diarydaybook.onlinejourno.com →
Daybook
Reads promises, deadlines and dated events onto a calendar, so the desk commits coverage while there is still time.
- 2Give it a fair chancegalley.onlinejourno.com →
Galley
Grades one story, shows where it loses readers and gives you the fix. Apply it and re-score.
- 3Read the channelsdispatch.onlinejourno.com →
Dispatch
How Google Discover, Search and AI answers are carrying your stories, read for the desk.
- 4Promote what earned itfrontmatter.onlinejourno.com →
Frontmatter
After you publish, finds the stories whose quality outran their reach, each with the fix.
- ∞The whole loopapp.onlinejourno.com →
Newsroom
Everything above in one workflow. Watches your beats, threads each signal to your archive and files a ranked brief every morning. Now in pilot.
Reach
Your story has to travel through machines now.
Readers find journalism through search results, recommendation feeds and AI answers. Dispatch and Frontmatter show how each one is carrying your work, and what to fix.
Channels: Google Search, Google Discover, AI answers, Google News, Social, Newsletters.
Pulse · for readers and for outlets
Great reporting the algorithm missed.
Every day a human editor picks Indian stories with high merit and low reach, and sends readers back to the outlet that did the work. If your story is on Pulse, our tools can show you why it stalled.
- Caste & Rights · Scroll.inCensus 2027 will count caste, but the data it produces won't be usable
- Society · Scroll.inWhy tree cutting on Dehradun highway could upend the life of a community
- Politics · Sabrang IndiaPRC, SIR and a BJP Hawk Shobha Karandlaje!
Start free
Two free auditors and one fixed-price audit.
- Free · open source
Tare
Page weight, third-party load and surveillance trackers. What your page costs a reader.
Example: 4.2 MB page · 31 third-party requests · 14 trackers - Free · open source
Forage
How search and AI crawlers spend their budget on your site, and which sections they have quietly written off.
Example: 62% of crawl budget spent on tag and archive pages - Fixed price
The Audit
A diagnostic for one publication. Merit, distribution, visibility and framing scored on public data, with three findings and the fix.
No logins. No retainer.
Also from the desk: Bureau, the reporter's signal desk, which you can host yourself and Loupe, a photojournalist's worktable for metadata, captions and credits.
Your newsroom stays in charge.
It never writes
It never publishes either. It surfaces the signal and the fix. The journalist decides.
Every source is named
Every brief links back to the filing, the order or the page it came from. Check it yourself.
Run it your way
Use our hosting or your own servers. Bring your own AI model.
“I started OnlineJournalism.in in 2000 and spent 25 years on digital desks. These are the tools I wanted on every one of them.”
Questions newsrooms ask
- What is OnlineJourno.?
- A set of AI editorial tools for newsrooms, built by journalists and founded by Subhash Rai. They read the public record, grade stories and track distribution. They never write or publish.
- Are the Watches free?
- Yes. The Watches are free daily briefs for working journalists. RegWatch, LawWatch and PolicyWatch are live now, and one registration covers up to five beats.
- Does OnlineJourno. write articles?
- No. It never writes and never publishes. It surfaces the signal and the fix; the journalist decides.
- Can we run the tools on our own servers?
- Yes. Self-hosting is supported, and you can bring your own AI model.
- Which tools are open source?
- Tare and Forage are free and open source under the MIT licence. The other tools have their own licences, listed on each tool's site.