News & Media Sites
Build a news and media website
Kliv is an AI website and app builder. Describe a news and media website with desks, scheduled publishing, embargoes, subscriber access, comments, and article pages crawlers can read.
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What is Kliv?
Kliv isn’t a generic blog CMS you sign up for and configure — it’s an AI app builder that builds software for you.
You describe the app you need in plain words, and Kliv builds it: the data, the logic, the screens, and the workflows. You own the result, run it on your own domain, and change it later by asking for changes. It isn’t a template with your name on it.
On this page, that app is a news and media website. Kliv builds all kinds of web apps; this is one example.
Why build your own newsroom site?
A newsroom is not just a blog. It has desks, deadlines, embargoes, editors, comments, subscriptions, newsletters, corrections, and an archive that needs to stay readable for years.
Kliv builds the site around that workflow. Stories, desks, publish times, subscribers, and comments become records in your own app, and the public pages are built for readers, search engines, and AI assistants to read.
What the newsroom keeps
A newsroom site needs structure under the articles.
Stories and desks
Every story has a desk, byline, status, and history: pitched, filed, edited, scheduled, live, and corrected.
Schedule and embargoes
A story can publish at 6 a.m. without anyone awake. An embargoed story stays hidden until the time you set.
Subscribers and access
Subscriber-only stories open when the reader has the right subscription. A lapsed card can close access on schedule after retries and recovery emails.
Moderated comments
Reader comments wait in a queue until someone approves or rejects them. The comment section reflects your moderation rules.
Searchable archive
Every story remains searchable by keyword and meaning, so old coverage can be found when the exact headline is forgotten.
An example: Nadia’s harbor-town newsroom
Here’s how one newsroom might use it. It’s only an example — you would describe your own desks, publishing rules, subscriptions, and comment policy.
A tip becomes a story record
A reader emails a photo of smoke at the fish market. Nadia opens a story on the news desk with the photo already stored.
The reporting history stays attached
The reporter files at midnight. The editor’s pass and the later correction stay in the story history instead of getting lost in inbox attachments.
The story publishes on schedule
The article is scheduled for 6 a.m. The page goes live, the sitemap updates, and crawlers can read the full article text.
The morning briefing sends itself
The daily email goes out with the fire at the top, using the newsroom’s own template.
The investigation is subscriber-only
The follow-up on the market’s wiring sits behind the subscriber gate. Non-subscribers see the summary and the offer to subscribe.
The archive keeps the story findable
Six months later, a search for the fire’s cause returns the article and its correction history.
Describe the newsroom site you want
Kliv builds from your description, so include desks, roles, schedule, subscriptions, comments, email, and archive rules. Here are three examples:
Harbor-town daily
Three desks, scheduled publishing, and a subscriber gate.
“Build a local news website with council, harbor, and sports desks. Publish scheduled stories at 6 a.m., charge $7 a month for investigative pieces, send a daily email briefing, keep embargoed stories hidden until their set time, and hold comments for moderation.”
County sports wire
Fixtures, reports, galleries, and premium coverage.
“Build a county sports news site with league tables, fixture pages, match reports, photographer galleries, free score updates, and a $49 season-pass subscription for premium analysis and photo archives.”
Culture review site
Critics, embargoes, ratings, and member archive.
“Build a film and music review site with a critics’ desk, star ratings, embargo dates per review, a members tier at $5 a month that opens the full archive, and moderated comments on published reviews.”
How it comes together
Articles are readable to crawlers. Pages can be prerendered so search engines and AI assistants see the full article text, not an empty JavaScript shell. Sitemaps can update as stories publish, and robots.txt remains under your control.
Subscriptions and access stay together. Subscriber payments can run on your own Stripe account. The same record that billing writes is what the gate reads.
Analytics can answer newsroom questions. Track visitors, subscriber conversion, revenue by channel, and custom events such as hits on a subscriber gate.
News is one kind of media site. The media solutions page covers the broader set.
Common questions
What exactly is Kliv?
Kliv is an AI website and app builder. You describe your newsroom site, and it builds the articles, workflows, access rules, and admin tools as a real app.
Do I get a real website, or a template?
A real website. Stories, desks, schedules, subscriptions, comments, and archive entries are structured records built for your newsroom.
Can I change it after it’s built?
Yes. You can ask for changes to desks, paywall rules, comment moderation, templates, or publishing workflows.
Can I schedule and embargo stories?
Yes. Stories carry publish times, and the system clock enforces them. Embargoed stories stay hidden until the hour you set.
Will Google and AI assistants see full articles?
Yes. Pages can be prerendered so crawlers can read the real article text, and the sitemap can update as stories publish.
How does the paywall work?
Subscriber-only stories are tied to a subscription entitlement. Purchase opens access, and a lapsed subscription can close it after retries and recovery emails.
What happens to reader comments?
They wait in a moderation queue until someone with the right role approves or rejects them.
Can I use my own domain?
Yes. The news site can run on your own domain.
Does Kliv take a cut of subscriptions?
No. Payments run through your own Stripe account. Card processing fees are between you and Stripe.
Do I need a separate CMS?
No. The site is its own admin for articles, desks, schedules, comments, and page text.
Can I move off Kliv later?
Yes. The code syncs to your own Git repository, so leaving is a git pull, not a rebuild.
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Build the newsroom site around your workflow
Describe your desks, deadlines, subscriber rules, comments, emails, and archive needs in detail. Kliv builds the site that runs them.