Linkbry gives a desk one shared library for the links behind its reporting, with a folder per story and a note on every link saying why it matters.
Use Linkbry as a newsroom’s shared research library: a folder per story with the source and document links behind it, a note on each explaining what it shows, and standing folders for public records portals, style guides and verification tools. Search covers titles, notes and the readable text of saved pages, and the broken-link checker flags sources that disappear. It stores links and text, not a full archive.
Documents, records, previous coverage, social posts and data behind a story, each with a note on what it shows, so the editor, the fact-checker and the reporter doing the follow-up all start from the same place.
Court records, company registries, planning portals, government data sites and FOI logs, organised by beat and region.
The house style guide, AP or other style references, corrections policy and legal guidance, where everyone can reach them from any text box.
Reverse image search, the Wayback Machine, geolocation and metadata tools, with notes from the desk on when to use each.
Links to press releases and embargoed material, kept in a folder restricted to the people working on the story. Linkbry stores the links, not the files.
Publish a read-only list of sources behind an investigation for readers, or share background reading with a partner newsroom.
The reporter creates a folder for the story and saves the first documents with the Chrome extension, selecting the key passage so it becomes the link’s description.
Each new link gets a note: the claim it supports, the page or timestamp, how it was verified. Colleagues on the desk can see the folder as it grows.
The editor and fact-checker work from the story folder, searching notes and page text to find the source behind a line in the copy.
For an investigation, an editor publishes a subfolder of public sources as a read-only page and links to it from the story. Notes are never shown.
When a reader questions a story, the folder is still there. The Broken filter shows which sources have since disappeared or moved.
Sources are gathered under deadline, in whatever was open. That’s fine on the day; it fails when someone else needs them weeks later.
Each link has a description, usually filled in from the page, and a separate note for the desk’s own context: what the source shows, where in it, how it was verified and how far to trust it. Tags mark source type and status. Search matches titles, URLs, descriptions, notes and site names, and the readable text Linkbry captures from saved web pages.
Owners manage the workspace and members. Editors (reporters and desk editors) add, organise and delete links, but only owners delete folders, so a story folder doesn’t vanish by accident. Viewers, such as the copy desk, social team or a freelancer, can search and open links without changing them. Owners can restrict a folder to named members, hiding it from everyone else in search, the picker and exports, which is useful for embargoed or sensitive stories.
Publish any folder, subfolders included, as a read-only page anyone can open without an account: the public documents behind an investigation, background reading for a partner newsroom, or a press kit list. Add a password and expiry date for a partner, or your own title and logo. Notes, archived and private links are never shown, and you can turn the page off at any time.
Links rot fastest on the stories you’ll be asked about later. Linkbry’s checker re-checks each saved link in the background, at most every seven days, and flags links that return errors or now redirect to another domain. Owners and editors can also re-check a link on demand. It tells you a source has gone; it doesn’t keep a copy of it.
Pro is $10 a month ($100 a year) per owner or editor, and viewers are free and unlimited. A desk where eight reporters and editors save sources, and 12 people on the copy desk, social and graphics only read them, pays $80 a month or $800 a year. A freelancer working alone can use the Free plan: one person, up to 100 links.
Linkbry is not an archive. It keeps links, notes and the readable text of web pages (not screenshots, PDFs or full copies), so preserve evidence with an archiving tool such as the Wayback Machine and save the archived link alongside the original. It isn’t a secure channel for confidential sources: don’t record source identities or sensitive contact details in it. It isn’t a CMS or a document store, and there are no native mobile apps.
Keep a public subfolder inside each story folder for anything you might publish as a reading list.
$10 a month or $100 a year per owner or editor. Viewers are free and unlimited on Pro, so people who only need to read the library (copy desk, social, freelancers) don’t add to the cost.
No. It stores the link, your note and the readable text of web pages for search, not screenshots, PDFs or a full copy. Use an archiving tool to preserve evidence and save the archived link too.
Yes. Owners can restrict a folder to named members; nobody else sees it or its links anywhere, including search and the picker. Individual links can also be kept private.
Owners and editors can add, organise and delete links; only owners delete folders and tags. Viewers can search and open links only. The activity feed shows who added, moved or changed what.
A feature of the Chrome extension: type ;; in any text box (your CMS, Slack, email, a Google Doc), search your saved links and press Enter to insert one. Handy for dropping the style-guide entry or a source link into a note to an editor.
Yes. Publish a folder as a read-only page that anyone can open without an account. Your notes are never shown, and you can turn it off at any time.
Yes. Import a bookmarks file from Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, Brave or Arc with its folders intact, or a CSV. Duplicates are skipped.
Free for one person, with your bookmarks imported in a minute.