TipWire — Court intelligence for newsrooms

Everything that happened overnight, on your desk by 6 AM.

New criminal filings from the courts. Fires, crashes and shootings from the dispatch feeds. Tips from the neighborhood groups your reporters already belong to. TipWire reads all of it overnight and hands your whole newsroom one morning briefing.

14 days free. No credit card. Your first report tomorrow morning.

A morning with TipWire.

This is what the desk walks in to, for a five-county newsroom covering Pittsburgh and the valleys south of it.

5:30 AMthe docket is read

Tomorrow's lead is already on the docket.

Overnight, TipWire reads every new criminal docket sheet in the counties you cover and matches the charges against your keywords. What survives the filter arrives as one email per county, grouped by filing date.

No portal logins, no clicking through case after case. The homicide that was filed at 4 PM yesterday is the first line in the inbox.

Defendant, docket number, every charge and its grade, arresting agency
Your keywords and your counties. Each reporter tunes their own.
A CSV of any county and date range, whenever you want it

Three Rivers Ledger Court Report: Allegheny

The morning court report email: twelve Allegheny County cases in two days, each with the top charge, grade, agency and the keyword that matched.

6:15 AMthe tips come in

The tips your reporters would have scrolled past.

Crashes, fires, shootings and school board fights surface in neighborhood Facebook groups hours before anyone files a story. Your reporters already belong to those groups. They just can't read all of them every morning.

Each reporter connects their own account once. From then on, what matters from their groups appears in one feed the whole newsroom reads, scored, summarized, and linked back to the original post. A tip from the night reporter's groups is on the morning editor's screen.

One shared feed for the newsroom. Every reporter's groups, together.
Scored 1 to 10 for newsworthiness, with a one-line summary
Links back to every post, so the reporter can reach the person who saw it

tipwirenews.com/social

The Social page: posts from six neighborhood Facebook groups across the newsroom, each with a newsworthiness score, category, summary and a link to the original.

6:30 AMwhat's happening now

Dispatch, without a scanner on every desk.

County 911 feeds and state police releases, read continuously and scored so a second-alarm fire or a fatal crash stands out from the fender benders. The ones that matter are on the dashboard and in the morning email.

Next to it, the overnight headlines from the other outlets in your market, so the desk knows what has already been covered before anyone pitches it.

Police, fire and EMS incidents with location and a short summary
Severity-scored so a 9 reads differently from a 5
Local headlines from the outlets you pick, grouped by source

tipwirenews.com/dispatch

The Dispatch page: a second-alarm structure fire, a shooting with a person struck, and a fatal crash, each with a severity score, location and summary.

tipwirenews.com/headlines

The Local Headlines page: recent articles from the Allegheny Daily Record and the North Hills Gazette, grouped by newspaper with a source filter.

The affidavit, without the phone tree.

A docket sheet tells you the charge. The criminal complaint and the affidavit of probable cause tell you the story: what the officer saw, what the witness said, why the charge is what it is.

See a filing you want to know more about, in the morning email or on the dashboard, and one click opens a TipWire page that has already picked the court office and drafted the email: a subject line, and a single sentence asking for the criminal complaint and the affidavit of probable cause.

Press Request records and it opens in your own mail app, sent from your newsroom's address, so the clerk's reply comes straight back to you. TipWire notes who asked, so the whole desk sees “Requested by…” and nobody asks for the same file twice. Changed your mind? There's an undo.

One click from any filing on the dashboard or in the email

Allegheny County's district courts are routed automatically; elsewhere you get the office's phone and address

Sent from your own mail app, so the court's reply lands in your inbox

Everything that happened overnight, on your desk by 6 AM.

A morning with TipWire.

Tomorrow's lead is already on the docket.

The tips your reporters would have scrolled past.

Dispatch, without a scanner on every desk.

The affidavit, without the phone tree.

Everyone walks in with the same morning.

Pricing for working newsrooms.

Tomorrow's report, in tomorrow's inbox.