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NewsLab is an all-in-one CMS for digital publishers. Hosting, editorial workflow, SEO, analytics and monetisation in one system — so your team ships stories instead of tickets.

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Powering 180+ newsrooms across 11 countries

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faster publishing per article

99.99%

uptime through traffic peaks

14 days

average migration, rankings intact

Why publishers switch

A general-purpose CMS was never built for a deadline

Every workaround your team maintains — the SEO plugin, the cache plugin, the developer on retainer — is a cost NewsLab removes.

The generic stack

Built for business sites and shops, then bent into a newsroom

Traffic drops after a Google update and nobody knows why

Plugin updates, security patches and hosting are your problem

A breaking story slows the site down or takes it offline

Analytics stop at sessions, so monetisation stays guesswork

The NewsLab advantage

Designed end to end for publishers, from live blog to paywall

Built-in SEO tooling with month-on-month traffic reporting

Weekly code and SEO updates shipped for you, no downtime

Hosting that scales with the spike, not after it

Article, author and revenue analytics in one dashboard

The product

Everything a newsroom needs, in one place

Editing

Maximum editing efficiency, minimum effort

Whether you're writing, editing or scheduling, NewsLab is easy to operate and an easy way to publish your content. Editors get freedom and control over how content is displayed and how data is organised.

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A structured block editor that keeps every article consistent without locking down the layout

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Modern storytelling formats — live blogs, web stories, galleries and embeds, natively supported

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Responsive by default so reporters can file and update a story from the phone in their hand

Council approves overnight metro service on three lines

Metro will run all night on three lines from October

Title ATitle B
34% 66%

SEO check

92%

Word count — 1,240 words, comfortably above the topic average

Related articles — link at least two more stories from this desk

Tags — 3 tags applied by the AI tag generator

Publish and share

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Web push

Flood levy explained

Rev 7
Draft Sub-edit Legal review Scheduled

Awaiting your approval

SR Sadia Rahman requested changes to paragraph 4Sub-editor · 6 min ago Open
MK Marina Kovac approved the photo selectionPicture desk · 22 min ago
LG Legal check pending on the levy figuresAssigned to L. Gomes · due 14:00 Pending

Site history

Rev 7 · headline replaced · S. Rahman

Rev 6 · two tags added · AI assist

Rev 5 · lede rewritten · T. Ahmed

Restore Rev 5

This week

MTWTF

9 stories scheduled · 3 embargoed until Wednesday 06:00

Workflow

Simplified workflows for content teams

Manage content moderation, review and publishing permissions across a desk of two or a desk of two hundred.

Complete visibility into revision authors

Site history logs every modification, who made it and how — auditable from the admin panel.

Revert to the version you want to publish

Compare revisions side by side and roll back before the correction is a correction.

Total control of your editorial calendar

Plan, assign and schedule coverage weeks ahead in a single shared view.

Media library

Keep your image library organised and under control

With focal points and custom cropping you decide how images are cropped and displayed across every template. Multiple upload and deduplication keep the library clean as it grows.

Focal point cropping

One upload, every aspect ratio right

Deduplication

No twelve copies of the same wire photo

Bulk upload

Drop a whole shoot, tag it once

Automatic formats

WebP and AVIF delivered from the edge

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Collaboration

Commenting and notifications, inside the CMS

Editors review and request content edits inside NewsLab — no parallel thread in chat, no lost feedback in email. Notifications reach the right person the moment a story needs them.

Inline comments Review requests Role permissions Slack & email alerts Unsaved-change guard
Draft brief Generate

What the new flood levy means for coastal districts

The levy applies to properties within two kilometres of the tidal line and is collected with the municipal rate. Officials say the first disbursements reach district councils in

Summary and tags generated

Headline suggestions

for “Flood levy explained”

Who pays the new flood levy, and when

CopyUse

Coastal districts get first flood-levy funds

CopyUse

The flood levy, in five questions

CopyUse

8.9 Discover score

Strong topical match. This story is a good candidate for the Discover feed.

Recheck score
TATanvir AhmedSuggested tags Review
flood levy coastal policy municipal budget climate

AI, SEO & analytics

Grow traffic without hiring an SEO team

NewsLab ships built-in SEO optimisation for faster organic results, and an AI layer that assists editors instead of replacing them. Every recommendation is traceable to a real ranking factor.

Draft and structure SEO content that ranks in Search and Discover

Headline suggestions ranked by the clicks they are likely to earn

Meta titles and descriptions optimised on autopilot across the archive

Topic guidance for Discover so you know what to commission next

Community building tools that turn passing readers into registered ones

Learn more →

Headless when you need it

Integrate with any frontend technology of your choice through the NewsLab API.

Read the API docs →

Front-end designs

Beautiful designs that increase revenue

An outdated front end makes your site less attractive to readers and to advertisers. Every NewsLab template is a real, editable design — customise it yourself from inside the editor, no developer on standby.

✓ 24 production templates ✓ Custom design service ✓ 95+ speed score
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 2026 METROPOLITAN EDITION · VOL. CLII · NO. 4,218 NEWSLETTERSIGN IN
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WORLD · BUSINESS · CULTURE — INDEPENDENT SINCE 1874

Dhaka · 31°C
Partly cloudy, wind SW 6 mph
Markets: DSEX ▲ 0.4%
LIVE
09:42Central bank holds rates as inflation cools for a third month 09:18Coastal cities sign accord to fund shared flood defences 08:55Tech giant unveils on-device translation for 40 languages 08:04Transit authority approves overnight service on three lines 09:42Central bank holds rates as inflation cools for a third month 09:18Coastal cities sign accord to fund shared flood defences 08:55Tech giant unveils on-device translation for 40 languages 08:04Transit authority approves overnight service on three lines

WORLD IN BRIEF

GENEVA

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Nations agree on a historic climate-adaptation fund

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Customers

Don't take our word for it

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RH Rumana HaqueEditor-in-chief, Dhaka Daily

"Our site now handles 35 million page views a month without a single incident. That used to be a war room every Friday."

MV Marc VlamingOwner, Vanta Sports

"We broke our all-time traffic record within six months of migrating. The weekly SEO updates keep us ahead."

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