Users & Permissions

Users are the people who have access to your organization. You can invite new users, control what they can see and do, and assign them to specific areas of the platform.

The NewsTeam permission system is designed to be granular and flexible. At the platform level, access is intended to be grantable at almost any level:

• To a single article or asset.
• To an entire bucket.
• To a feed or even a specific branch of the feed tree.
• To a whole site or the entire organization.

This flexibility allows you to mirror the exact structure and workflow of your newsroom.

Module status

Permissions are built into the core NewsTeam model, but the full permission management surface is still being exposed in the product.

Today, users inside an organization are effectively treated as admins. Granular role controls, scoped access, and the full management UI are still in development.

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Planned Role Model

The intended permission model is role-based, and the main roles include:

• Viewer — Can view content but cannot make changes.
• Editor — Can create and edit content within their assigned areas.
• Admin — Can manage users, permissions, and all entities within their scope.

By combining scope (what the user has access to) with role (what they can do), NewsTeam is designed to support precise permission models.

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Example Permission Shapes

• A freelance photographer could have Editor access to a single Bucket where they upload images.
• A politics desk editor could have Editor access to the Politics Feed branch but no access to Sports.
• An organization-wide administrator could have Admin access across all entities.

Future Release

In a future update, we will introduce Teams, making it easier to group users and assign shared permissions. This will simplify managing large newsrooms by applying consistent roles and access controls across departments or desks.

In summary

NewsTeam’s permission system is designed to be granular, role-based, and flexible. The model already exists in the core platform, but the full controls are still being surfaced in the product.

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Related Topics

Organizations The top-level container for your teams, sites, and content.

Buckets Where content is created and managed. Independent from business products.

Feeds Curated collections that organize and distribute content.

Sites Your audience-facing products, like websites, apps, or newsletters.

Articles The core content type in NewsTeam, created with our Article Builder.