Journalists, ready to become more efficient with Melody?

We believe that a digital transformation is successful when it is easily adoptable. Melody was designed to fit the needs of journalists, not the other way around.We built our features based on the industry experience of our founders but also taking into account hundreds of feedbacks from journalists and editors in the field. The relevance of our tool, combined with a willingness to support change, ensures a 5-star user experience.

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Write your articles directly in Melody

Think about the layout during production

Don't lose track of your articles while writing

Join over 3,000 journalists using Melody, including:

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The features that will change your life.

Journalism allows society to educate, inform and invite to ask itself the right questions. The continuity of information is at the heart of our concerns, as is ensuring the sustainability of media outlets. Doing one's job well should not only be possible for journalists working in large groups.

article editing

Write your articles directly in Melody.

Enter articles in a "form" mode that reproduces their logical structure.
Enrichment of your content (bold, underlined, bullets, formats such as heading, reminder, question etc...) or addition of hyperlinks.

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Automatic real-time backup

Thanks to Melody's automatic backup, you don't have to worry about a power outage, network failure, or a bug. Your work is saved live in the cloud.
You can also save before leaving your article!

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Integrated counters

Melody integrates a sign counter and a word counter, allowing journalists and correspondents to deliver "formatted" articles.
It is also possible to force the editor to a minimum or maximum number of lines.

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Enriched writing

You can copy and paste from Word, Open Office, Libre Office or any other text editor, but also duplicate an old version of an article to enrich it.
The definition of keywords can be done manually or automatically, with optional semantic enrichment.

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Spell check

Ability to integrate Prolexis (or Antidote) spellchecker directly into the article editor for typographical, spelling, and grammatical corrections.

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Live preview

The article editor is connected to a preview engine that allows, depending on the media addressed and the model selected, to visualize the final preview of the article.

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Choice of model

Association of a layout template (managed from InDesign) and preview of the article in the template.

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Indication of overhangs

The templates are set up to receive a certain number of characters in each part of the article (title, subtitle, caption, etc.). Melody shows you visually when a text exceeds a certain number of characters and suggests solutions to remedy the situation.

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Possible modifications according to the rights granted

Depending on the models and the expected editorial flexibility, various functionalities are present allowing the contributor with the necessary rights to adapt the article to its content or vice versa. To change the color of the elements concerned, etc.

article layout

Think about the layout as you write.

Have control over the visual rendering of your article, as well as the textual content (depending on your rights, your access and your organization's settings).

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article layout

Think about the layout as you write.

Have control over the visual rendering of your article, as well as the textual content (depending on your rights, your access and the settings of your templates).

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article management

Don't lose track of your articles while writing.

Thanks to article orders, workflow and channel management, don't lose track of your published, upcoming or in-progress articles.

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Management of the article's workflow.

Thanks to Melody, you can trace the history of the article according to the status transitions (Workflow: to be reviewed, published, draft, etc.).

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Assigning articles

You can receive an article proposal as a contributor. You will then receive a message indicating that you have received an article and where it came from.

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Produce for the web

The formatting of your article is totally adapted to the digital world, offering the categorizations expected by the web CMS: thematic, geographic (with an editable geolocation map), headings, etc.

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Manage the different channels

As soon as you create your article, simply choose the distribution channel, the title to which it should be attached and its publication date.

Once the article is created, activate a new version for publication on another channel.