Editor Desk
Assignment management for editorial teams — with optional AI-powered email ingestion that turns incoming emails into journalist assignments automatically.
Manual assignments
Editors create and manage assignments for their team. Track what needs to be done, who's doing it, and when it's due.
- Create assignments with title, instructions, type, deadline, and publication
- Assign to one or multiple journalists
- Custom assignment types with colour coding (Article, Event Coverage, Letter to Editor, etc.)
- Status workflow: New → Assigned → In Progress → Completed → Archived
- Articles created from assignments are automatically linked
- Branch-based organisation for multi-office setups
- Priority and estimated time fields
- Bulk assignment creation
AI-powered email ingestion
Connect your newsroom's email inboxes and let AI do the triage. Incoming emails are automatically classified and turned into assignments — so your team spends less time sorting email and more time covering stories.
- Monitor designated email inboxes (Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace)
- Polls for new emails every 5 minutes automatically
- AI classification categorises emails as news tips, press releases, event notices, letters to the editor, and more
- Auto-creates assignments from incoming emails with the appropriate type
- Spam and marketing detection (pattern-based + AI)
- Configurable blocked domains and blocked phrases
- Email attachments automatically uploaded as media assets
- Post-processing: mark as read, archive, or move to folder
- Incremental sync — only fetches new messages each poll
- Editors notified immediately of new assignments
Smart classification
AI reads each email and assigns it to the right category — so the right type of assignment is created automatically.
News Tip
Breaking news, incidents, accidents
Press Release
Official statements and media releases
Event Notice
Community events and meetings
Letter to Editor
Opinion pieces for publication
Story Pitch
Feature or investigative story suggestions
Follow-up
Follow-ups to previous coverage
General Inquiry
Non-news questions
How email ingestion works
Connect
Link your Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace inbox via secure service account authentication.
Poll
Xpressly checks for new emails every 5 minutes, fetching only what's new.
Classify
AI reads the email and categorises it — news tip, press release, event, or spam.
Assign
An assignment is created automatically with the right type. Editors are notified.