Regional Wire

For publishers

RSS feed ingestion

Auto-ingesting stories from your CMS feed every 15 minutes.

Overview

Instead of manually uploading each story, you can connect one or more RSS or Atom feeds to Regional Wire. The platform polls your feeds every 15 minutes and automatically adds new items to the library. This is the preferred setup for newsrooms with a high story volume or an existing CMS publishing workflow.

Adding a feed

Go to Dashboard → Settings → Feeds (admin only). Click Add feed and enter your feed's URL. Regional Wire supports RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 formats.

You can add multiple feeds — for example, a section-specific feed alongside your main site feed.

Full-text vs. headline-only feeds

Regional Wire handles feeds differently depending on whether they include full story content:

  • Full-text feeds — Items with a full <content:encoded> or <description> body are added as complete stories to the library, ready for republication.
  • Headline-only feeds — Items without body content are added to the Headlines tab in the library. Other member newsrooms can request the full story through the requests workflow.

Deduplication

Regional Wire deduplicates feed items using the item's guid field (or the item URL if no guid is present). If an item has already been ingested, it will not be added again on subsequent polls — even if the feed content has changed.

To update an ingested story, edit it manually from your dashboard.

Embargo handling

Feed items with a future pubDate are ingested as embargoed stories. They will not appear in the library until their publication date is reached. The wire checks for lifted embargoes on the same 15-minute polling schedule.

Author attribution

Regional Wire reads the dc:creator field from feed items for author attribution. If present, it is used as the byline in the story and copy package. If absent, the byline is left blank and should be edited manually after ingestion.

Managing feeds

You can edit or delete feeds from Dashboard → Settings → Feeds. Deleting a feed stops future polling but does not remove stories that have already been ingested.

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