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Editorial workflow and story formats

Whether you're a solo journalist or a multi-desk newsroom, your workflow should feel natural - not like fighting your CMS. Naratica gives every editor a clear path from draft to published, with permissions and queues that grow with your team. And when it's time to tell a story differently, pick the right format instead of bending a generic template to fit.

• Drafts, scheduling, and approval flows that keep everyone on the same page.
• A rich editor with a built-in file manager - AI assist is right there when you need it.
• Breaking news, featured stories, and slider placements with full ordering control.
• Registered-only and paywalled posts - right down to per-article pricing.
• FAQ blocks with structured markup that search engines love.
• Tags, reading lists, attachments, and media handling that goes well beyond basic image uploads.
• Bulk CSV import for high-volume migration and content pipelines.

Eleven story formats, each one built properly

Every format has its own fields, validation rules, and reader presentation. Your editors never have to force a lifestyle piece into a wire template or hack a quiz into a shortcode.

• Article - the workhorse. Long-form, wire-style, extra imagery, and in-article sliders.
• Gallery - editorial image sets with full ordering and captions.
• Sorted list - rankings, countdowns, and explainers that readers actually want to scroll through.
• Table of contents - multi-level guides with anchor navigation for deep-dive content.
• Video - embed from YouTube, Vimeo, and more, or serve self-hosted files with clean playback.
• Audio - podcast episodes and radio-style clips with playlist support.
• Trivia quiz - scored questions that keep readers engaged and coming back.
• Personality quiz - branching paths and shareable results that spread on social.
• Poll - quick reader votes you can surface anywhere on the site.
• Recipe - structured ingredients and steps that rank in Google's recipe cards.
• Event - venue listings, dates, and recurring patterns for your events calendar.

Available formats and field sets can vary by Naratica tier. Your demo walkthrough will show you exactly which ones map to your newsroom.

AI in the newsroom

AI assistance that actually belongs in the editor - not in a separate tab you're constantly copying and pasting from. Naratica's AI-assisted publishing works right inside the admin, helping your team move faster without handing over editorial judgment.

• Your keys, your costs - connect your own OpenAI or Google Gemini API account. Usage limits, billing, and data stay entirely on your side.
• Built into the editor - drafting help, headline variations, rewrites, and ideation right where you're already writing. No copy-paste, no context switching.
• Humans still decide - AI suggests, your team publishes. Every approval gate and role-based permission still applies, consistent with the rest of your workflow.
• Roll it out at your own pace - enable it desk by desk or as a pilot cohort. No big-bang adoption required.

Performance and media delivery

The story that breaks at 8am shouldn't bring your site down at 8:01. Naratica is built around caching, efficient image delivery, and optional cloud storage so your infrastructure scales with your audience - not against it.

• Layered content and application caching with smart invalidation - fast pages, fresh content.
• Modern image formats (WebP and beyond) with lazy loading baked in.
• Traffic spike resilience without last-minute CDN rewrites or emergency deploys.
• Cloud storage integrations with AWS S3, Cloudflare R2, and Backblaze B2.
• Secure, token-authenticated cron endpoints for automation, RSS refreshes, and mailers.

Advertising

Subscription revenue is great. Display revenue alongside it is better. Naratica's ad inventory is built into the same layout system as your articles - so your sales team can manage placements without asking engineering to edit templates for every campaign.

• Desktop and mobile ad zones - leaderboard, in-article, sticky, and mobile formats defined by your theme, so layout shift and art direction stay predictable.
• Google AdSense ready - connect your publisher account for programmatic fill alongside direct-sold or house inventory.
• Custom markup per zone - drop in network tags, sponsorship HTML, or creative experiments without touching the codebase.
• One consent policy, everywhere - ad scripts go through the same cookie consent and third-party gating as your analytics and embeds. One policy surface, no GDPR surprises.
• Theme-aware - ad slots follow the active reader theme, so a redesign never orphans your ad stack.

Which zones are enabled and whether AdSense is pre-wired depends on your Naratica tier. We map your inventory to your rate card during onboarding.

Security, privacy, and abuse resistance

Your readers trust you with their data. Naratica is built with that responsibility in mind - GDPR compliance, bot resistance, and sane security defaults are included from the start, not discovered on a Friday afternoon after launch.

• GDPR-oriented consent patterns with proper cookie gating for all third-party scripts.
• reCAPTCHA and Cloudflare Turnstile support, plus email deny lists and brute-force protections.
• Spam link handling, password policy controls, and platform-level mitigations for common web attacks.

Email, RSS, push, and live video

Publishing doesn't end when you hit Publish. Your subscribers expect an email. Your partner feeds need a fresh RSS. Your app readers need a push notification. Naratica handles all of it so you're not wiring together half a dozen third-party tools just to reach your own audience.

• Transactional and newsletter delivery via Mailgun, Brevo, or plain SMTP - your choice.
• HTML mail templates, CSV and JSON subscriber import/export, and on-site capture forms.
• RSS ingestion and outbound feeds for wire services and content partners.
• Web push notifications with topic-level targeting and full parity with your mobile apps.
• Live and HLS video playback for breaking streams and broadcast-style coverage.

Exact modules and limits depend on your Naratica tier. Bring this page to your sales call or migration plan - we'll map each area to your contract and launch checklist.