The wire for local government.
Every public meeting on your beat — transcribed, summarized, and drafted into a filing-ready article by the time it adjourns.
Filed in newsrooms across the country
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How it works
Roll call to recess to filing.
GovWire is a wire service. We staff the meeting. You file the story.
01 · Roll call
A correspondent listens to the full session.
Real-time capture from the clerk's livestream — or a recorder we ship to your reporter. Every speaker identified by name, role, and section of meeting.
02 · Transcript
Every minute, on the record.
Timestamped transcript with speaker IDs, motions, votes, and public comment broken out. Fact-checked against the published agenda and the meeting minutes.
03 · Filed
A draft on your desk before adjournment.
Editorial summary plus a filing-ready article — dateline, lede, two pull quotes, three sources. You edit, file under your byline, and own the piece.
The deliverable
One brief, three artifacts.
Every meeting on your beat lands in your inbox as a single brief — transcript, editorial summary, and a draft you can file under your own byline.
- Speakers identified, motions broken out
- Three quotes pulled, sources named
- Ready to file by adjournment
Busing plan returns to staff after 5-2 vote; superintendent cites driver shortage as core problem.
Akron, Ohio — The school board voted 5-2 Tuesday night to return the district’s revised busing plan to staff for a 30-day rework, after two hours of public comment from parents in the Highland Square neighborhood.
“We’re not solving routes. We’re solving a hiring problem.”— Superintendent C. Mendez · 7:42 p.m.
Transcript · public comment
Methodology
Five rules, in plain English.
Anything you’d ask a newsroom to follow, we follow.
- 01
We staff the meeting. You file the story.
GovWire is a wire service for newsrooms. We never publish under our own name and we never sell to readers. Every byline is yours.
- 02
Sources are cited by name and timestamp.
Every claim in a brief points back to the second of audio it came from. If we can’t cite it, we don’t print it.
- 03
Transcripts are public record.
We file FOIA when we can’t get audio. We pay clerks when we can. Our recordings are available to any newsroom on the beat.
- 04
An editor reads every brief.
Drafts are checked by a human editor before they hit your inbox. No model output ever ships unread.
- 05
We disclose our limits.
Where the audio was bad, where the speaker was off-mic, where we couldn’t verify — it’s in the brief, at the top.
“If you can’t staff every council meeting, you can’t cover the city. With GovWire we finally can — and our reporters are doing the work that actually needs a reporter.”
Pricing
One wire. Three sizes of newsroom.
Built for independent and nonprofit newsrooms. No seat fees. Cancel after any pilot.
One beat, full wire access, no card required.
- One city, board of education, or commission
- Up to 8 meetings
- Filed in your inbox by adjournment
- Cancel any time
The default for independent and nonprofit newsrooms.
- Up to 6 beats
- Unlimited briefs and transcripts
- Breaking alerts to your editor
- Search across past sessions
- Reader-facing methodology page
For consortia, statewide desks, and public-media collaborations.
- Unlimited beats and seats
- Shared transcript archive
- FOIA support staff
- Co-byline policy
Next step
Pick a beat. We’ll cover it for 30 days.
Start with one city council, one board of education, or one community board. If it doesn’t save your reporters two days of work in the first month, you owe us nothing.