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  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
  },
  "cite_as": "Newsprint, \"News Direct: new features and launches\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/news-direct/, updated 2026-10-28",
  "updated_at": "2026-10-28",
  "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/news-direct/",
  "markdown_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/news-direct.md",
  "title": "News Direct: new features and launches",
  "opening_answer": "We confirmed 4 product launches from News Direct since 2020. The latest, SimpliFi earnings-release workflow, became available Sept. 22, 2021. We also record 1 new company.",
  "period": "2019 to Sept. 22, 2021",
  "methodology_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology",
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    "site": "https://newsdirect.com/",
    "summary": "News Direct is a newswire for PR and investor relations teams. It sells flat-rate press release distribution with placement by industry, plus distribution of standalone multimedia assets. A content studio helps teams draft and approve releases, and each distribution comes with a performance report.",
    "founded": 2019,
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    "status": "active",
    "price_note": "no public price list; the 2020 launch pieces describe annual subscriptions at a flat rate per asset (release, video, image or infographic), with the per-asset rate set by the bundle size, and no word count or geographic limits; sales-led (Request a demo)",
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        "kind": "blog",
        "url": "https://www.newsdirect.com/category/blog/"
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      },
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        "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/news-direct-corp/"
      },
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        "kind": "social",
        "url": "https://twitter.com/NewsDirectSoc"
      }
    ],
    "updated_at": "2026-10-28",
    "category_names": [
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    ]
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  "confirmed_product_launches": 4,
  "dated_product_launches": 4,
  "undated_launches": 0,
  "launches_data_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/data/launches.json",
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          "retrieved_at": "2026-10-19"
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