Publish stories like the world's top newsrooms — without their developer budget
Shorthand's digital publishing platform helps media teams and newsrooms like the BBC and Sky News produce engaging longform features and data-driven stories at the pace news cycles demand.
Publish stories like the world's top newsrooms — without their developer budget
Shorthand's digital publishing platform helps media teams and newsrooms like the BBC and Sky News produce engaging longform features and data-driven stories at the pace news cycles demand.
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The digital publishing platform for editorial teams with taste
Shorthand is built for media teams who demand editorial quality and fast turnaround times. Whether you're publishing a longform feature, a data-driven investigation, or a branded content campaign, Shorthand gives you the tools to build a beautiful story without a developer.
The digital publishing platform for editorial teams with taste
Shorthand is built for media teams who demand editorial quality and fast turnaround times. Whether you're publishing a longform feature, a data-driven investigation, or a branded content campaign, Shorthand gives you the tools to build a beautiful story without a developer.
Create engaging longform editorial stories
Editorial teams use Shorthand to publish immersive stories with scroll-based animation, full-screen imagery, embedded video, and data visualisations.
Journalists and producers can report, build, and publish on the same day — in a format readers scroll to the end.
Stuff produces longform Shorthand stories for 1.7 million weekly readers.
Create engaging longform editorial stories
Editorial teams use Shorthand to publish immersive stories with scroll-based animation, full-screen imagery, embedded video, and data visualisations.
Journalists and producers can report, build, and publish on the same day — in a format readers scroll to the end.
Stuff produces longform Shorthand stories for 1.7 million weekly readers.
Premium sponsored and branded content
Produce sponsored stories that justify higher advertiser rates — because the delivery matches the premium price.
Adweek, Vogue, and Haymarket Media use Shorthand to build branded content with higher dwell time, scroll depth, and click-through rates that flat HTML and PDFs can't match.
Seven West Media gives minimum guarantees for page views thanks to Shorthand.
Digital magazine and edition publishing
Forget old school PDFs and flipbooks. Create web-native digital magazines that load fast, render correctly on every device, and meet accessibility standards.
With Shorthand’s brand theming and section templates in place, each issue is faster to produce than the last.
Try our custom digital magazine template.
Digital magazine and edition publishing
Forget old school PDFs and flipbooks. Create web-native digital magazines that load fast, render correctly on every device, and meet accessibility standards.
With Shorthand’s brand theming and section templates in place, each issue is faster to produce than the last.
Try our custom digital magazine template.
“We turned around a piece on the red carpet, with multiple images and text in different formats, in ninety minutes. There was no bespoke design. It was all built completely using Shorthand’s built-in features.
It’s a classic example of Shorthand allowing us to create visually engaging stories extremely quickly.”
Ronan Hughes, Sky News
“We turned around a piece on the red carpet, with multiple images and text in different formats, in ninety minutes. There was no bespoke design. It was all built completely using Shorthand’s built-in features.
It’s a classic example of Shorthand allowing us to create visually engaging stories extremely quickly.”
Ronan Hughes, Sky News
Newsworthy formats that keep audiences reading
One storytelling platform for everything a digital newsroom needs — scroll-based sections, full-screen imagery, video, and data visualisations — all without dev or design help.
Ready-to-file stories
Combine video, photography, audio, and copy into a single publishable story — assembled in the Shorthand editor, not the dev queue.
Turn around mixed multimedia stories with multiple different formats in hours, not days.
Data storytelling
Create charts with Shorthand’s native builder or third-party tools like Flourish, Datawrapper, and Tableau.
Then, time them to animate as readers scroll and let your data tell the story — without custom development.
Interactive explainers
Add scroll-triggered timelines, before-and-after image reveals, annotated maps, and animated sequences with the drag-and-drop tool.
Get stories published now — not sitting in a dev backlog for weeks.
Shorthand For Media FAQs
How do I publish a longform feature story with Shorthand?
You build your story in Shorthand's no-code web editor, combining scroll-based sections, full-screen imagery, embedded video, and text into a single page layout.
Once it is ready, you publish to a custom URL — either hosted by Shorthand, using Shorthand for Wordpress, or via your CMS using other integrations like our Drupal plugin. Stories can also be embedded in any proprietary CMS.
Most media teams can write, produce, and publish a complete feature on the same day.
Can I use Shorthand for sponsored content and branded content?
Yes. Shorthand is widely used by media commercial teams for sponsored features, branded content campaigns, and native advertising packages. The no-code editor publishes premium stories that match the quality of your editorial output, with measurable delivery that flat HTML and PDF alternatives can't provide. Shorthand’s built-in analytics track dwell time and scroll depth to demonstrate ROI to sponsors directly. You can also integrate third-party analytics tools such as Chartbeat and Google Analytics.
How do media companies use Shorthand?
The most common uses are longform editorial features, branded and sponsored content campaigns, interactive and data-driven journalism, sports reporting, digital magazines, and event or breaking-news coverage. Many media teams also use Shorthand for internal editorial tools like pitch decks, media kits, staff briefings, and audience research presentations.
How does Shorthand compare to Issuu, Foleon, and Ceros for media publishers?
Issuu converts PDFs into digital flipbooks, Foleon is a design tool for B2B marketing collateral, and Ceros is an animation platform for interactive brand microsites. None is built for the scroll-based, full-screen editorial and sponsored storytelling that media teams require when they publish regularly.
Shorthand is an easy way for your team to build web-native stories from scratch without design expertise or a developer. Media teams can produce content that outperforms all of these platforms on engagement metrics, mobile reading, and accessibility compliance. Read the full Issuu comparison or this Shorthand vs Ceros breakdown to help you decide.
Is Shorthand accessible?
Shorthand is committed to WCAG 2.1 Level AA accessibility. Our platform VPAT is available on request, alongside our security overview and GDPR DPA. Contact us to talk to our team and request the documentation you need.
How long will it take my media team to publish a Shorthand story?
Most media teams can publish a complete Shorthand feature (including layout, imagery, and all multimedia embeds) within a few hours of sitting down to build it. Teams with existing stories and magazines can move faster once Shorthand’s brand theming and section templates are in place.
Shorthand For Media FAQs
How do I publish a longform feature story with Shorthand?
You build your story in Shorthand's no-code web editor, combining scroll-based sections, full-screen imagery, embedded video, and text into a single page layout.
Once it is ready, you publish to a custom URL — either hosted by Shorthand, using Shorthand for Wordpress, or via your CMS using other integrations like our Drupal plugin. Stories can also be embedded in any proprietary CMS.
Most media teams can write, produce, and publish a complete feature on the same day.
Can I use Shorthand for sponsored content and branded content?
Yes. Shorthand is widely used by media commercial teams for sponsored features, branded content campaigns, and native advertising packages. The no-code editor publishes premium stories that match the quality of your editorial output, with measurable delivery that flat HTML and PDF alternatives can't provide. Shorthand’s built-in analytics track dwell time and scroll depth to demonstrate ROI to sponsors directly. You can also integrate third-party analytics tools such as Chartbeat and Google Analytics.
How do media companies use Shorthand?
The most common uses are longform editorial features, branded and sponsored content campaigns, interactive and data-driven journalism, sports reporting, digital magazines, and event or breaking-news coverage. Many media teams also use Shorthand for internal editorial tools like pitch decks, media kits, staff briefings, and audience research presentations.
How does Shorthand compare to Issuu, Foleon, and Ceros for media publishers?
Issuu converts PDFs into digital flipbooks, Foleon is a design tool for B2B marketing collateral, and Ceros is an animation platform for interactive brand microsites. None is built for the scroll-based, full-screen editorial and sponsored storytelling that media teams require when they publish regularly.
Shorthand is an easy way for your team to build web-native stories from scratch without design expertise or a developer. Media teams can produce content that outperforms all of these platforms on engagement metrics, mobile reading, and accessibility compliance. Read the full Issuu comparison or this Shorthand vs Ceros breakdown to help you decide.
Is Shorthand accessible?
Shorthand is committed to WCAG 2.1 Level AA accessibility. Our platform VPAT is available on request, alongside our security overview and GDPR DPA. Contact us to talk to our team and request the documentation you need.
How long will it take my media team to publish a Shorthand story?
Most media teams can publish a complete Shorthand feature (including layout, imagery, and all multimedia embeds) within a few hours of sitting down to build it. Teams with existing stories and magazines can move faster once Shorthand’s brand theming and section templates are in place.
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