Legitimate provides journalists with a verified profile that helps protect their identity and get them the recognition they deserve for their work. The profile also comes with a suite of tools specifically designed for journalists.
A suite of tools designed with journalists in mind.
Whether you publish on news sites, blogs, your personal site or anywhere - your entire body of work is then forever archived on your personal Legitimate page. We'll automatically populate your portfolio as you publish content around the web.
We will also create backups of your work, saving screenshots and docs of every article you publish. If a publication or site ever shuts down, you'll always have a copy of your work safely stored.
The journalist AI assistant
Legitimate revolutionizes how journalists work. Save time, accelerate the writing process, enhance your articles, and much more. Our AI learns how you write and provides invaluable support at each step of the article creation process.
Idea generation
Title optimization
Social post creation
Summaries
Personalized suggestions
Text to voice
Article outlines
Background research
Statistics research
Sentiment analysis
Readability score
Editorial review"
Meta tag generation
Generate transcripts quickly and easily. Organize your video and audio recordings. Annotate your interviews and sound bites with time-stamped notes.
“Transcription is a necessary, but time-consuming task for journalists. Getting a free tool designed to help us record and transcribe interviews on the fly will be transformative.”
Keep yourself and your sources safe while making it easy for the right people to get in touch. No need to display your email for spammers and bots to scrape. Customize your contact forms to ensure you receive the information you need. Have your forms fully encrypted to ensure only you have access.
Streamline your work, manage projects and organise tasks. Our Workflow Manager helps you stay on schedule so you hit your deadlines.
The most comprehensive text editor built for journalists.
Easily organise and manage your contacts in one central location.
Create engaging and visually appealing content directly within Legitimate.
Keep your audience informed and engaged with our newsletter features.
Increase visibility and reach with RSS feeds, QR codes and email footers.
Many of our tools are fully encrypted to provide protection for your sources and unpublished work.
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Used by thousands of journalists worldwide
As a journalist, I have found Legitimate to be a fantastic and easy way to get my articles out to others, and the site's database of tools has been a massive help to me too. A special thank you must go to the COO Caoimhe Donnelly, who is always on hand to answer any of my questions and responds very quickly.
Transcription is a necessary, but time-consuming task for journalists. Getting a free tool designed to help us record and transcribe interviews on the fly will be transformative.
It gives you the perfect hub to monitor and analyse your own online presence as well as quickly being able to track down old pieces you might have forgotten about - it really is a game changer.
One of the best solutions of its kind on the market and a tool that every journalist should use and take advantage of.
At a time when journalism is under assault, Legitimate is providing tools and support for journalists throughout the world. Legitimate's work in the field is very helpful and couldn't be happening at a more important time for journalism.
As a freelance journalist contributing to a number of publications, I have found Legitimate a handy way to bring all my work together in one place. It has also provided a useful form of verification, without charge, now Twitter has removed its legacy blue ticks.