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A voice news brief from the Global South.

Three underreported stories, three times a day, produced by a virtual newsroom and narrated in four languages with a quick quiz.

Editions daily
4
Languages
48
Countries tracked
<3 min
To hear the full brief
The brief

News from the places the headlines skip.

International news circles the same few countries. Lexy Originals covers the rest with three fresh stories every edition, built for voice.

The stories others skip

Consequential news from across the Global South, not the same few capitals.

Built for the ear

Short and narrated, three stories your audience can finish in minutes.

Engagement built in

A quick quiz turns a passive read into something your audience plays and remembers.

The pipeline

How an edition gets made.

Six agents in order, with a defined handoff between each one and a route back when the work is not ready to move forward.

The six stage Lexy news pipeline Planning Desk hands sources to the Assignment Desk, which hands a shortlist to the Correspondent, which hands a draft to the Managing Editor, which hands approved copy to the Voice Booth, which hands narration to Distribution. Rejected stories return from the Managing Editor to the Correspondent. PLANNING DESK Search Calendar of events plus the day's wires ASSIGNMENT DESK Select Scout shortlists, editor picks three CORRESPONDENT Write A short brief built for the ear MANAGING EDITOR Edit Checks every claim against the sources VOICE BOOTH Narrate Four languages, word level timing DISTRIBUTION Publish Phone, web, widget and smart speaker sources shortlist draft approved audio sent back with notes until it meets the bar

Swipe the diagram to see all six stages.

Work moves left to right and only moves forward when the stage before it is finished. A story the managing editor will not clear goes back to the correspondent rather than on to narration.

Editorial standards

Edited to a standard, not scraped.

Every edition runs against written editorial rules, and the Managing Editor agent sends weak stories back until they meet the bar.

Clear story criteria

Stories must be timely, consequential, and useful beyond the daily news cycle.

Deliberate country mix

Coverage rotates across regions so the same countries do not dominate every edition.

Source led summaries

Every brief is tied back to its source reporting.

Fact checked before release

Names, numbers, dates, and claims are checked against source material.

One version of record

The written brief, narration, captions, and quiz all come from the same source text.

Voice ready writing

Scripts are edited for spoken clarity, not just written summary.

The economics

A newsroom's output, without a newsroom's payroll.

Running daily multilingual world coverage used to take a full production desk. Now it is a brief you embed.

Then

Global daily coverage meant producers, editors, narrators, and a budget to match.

Now

A virtual newsroom produces the finished brief, and you add it to your property in minutes.

Still human-led

People set the standard once, in writing. Every edition after that is held to it the same way, and anything that does not measure up goes back.

For your audience

Hear it your way.

The same brief works on your page, over the phone, or from a QR code, with no app to install.

On the page

Embedded on your site, your audience listens, reads along, and takes the quiz.

By phone

A phone number plays the same brief for callers, no app required.

From a QR code

Drop a QR on print, signage, or a campaign and it opens today's edition.

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