For newsrooms and writers · free · no account

Put a live story in your article.

A developing story, followed until it ends, inside your page. The widget updates itself when something new happens, cites every line, and stays the record after the story closes. One line of code. It never reads anything from your page.

Pick a story, pick a look

live preview

Where it goes

In the article

Spine, medium

Almost no frame. Sits under a paragraph in any column width and reads as part of the page. The default.

Under a standards desk

Wire

Agency-desk plain text. Hairlines, no ornament, nothing borrowed from your page and nothing imposed on it. The look an editor will not argue about.

Sidebar or card

Sheet

A rounded card with a call to action. Honest about being a widget; the best click-through of the four.

Newsletter, Substack, Medium

Image card

Where only an image is allowed: a picture that re-renders as the story moves, linking to the full page. Pick a story above and open the Image tab.

What it is, plainly

Written by software

Public sources are checked on a schedule and an update is written from them only when something new appears. No editor reviews it before it goes out. The widget says so, on every size.

Every line cited

Each claim carries a numbered source. From inside your article a citation opens the source row on the STELQ page in a new tab, never a third-party site on your page.

Nothing about private people

Public updates are written around institutions, agencies, companies, courts and places. No accusation against a named private individual, however well sourced.

Wrong? Say so.

Every widget links to a corrections page that needs no account. We answer within one business day and say what we did.

Your own story, not just ours.

Paste the link to the article you are writing. STELQ opens a watch on that story, and you can share it to a public page and embed it in the piece the same way. Costs cents a day; you set the cadence.

Watch a story of my own