LiveDesk
Built for live coverage

One screen for everything you need while you're live.

LiveDesk puts your map, your stream, your source documents, a running story timeline, and your open questions on a single companion screen — so you're never juggling tabs and printouts while you're talking on camera.

NO APP SWITCHING · NO LOOSE PAPERS · NO DEAD AIR

LIVE Riverside Courthouse — Day 3
00:41:12
Location
42.35 N, 71.06 W · courthouse steps
Stream feed
LIVE CAM 1 · courthouse steps, north entrance
Documents & receipts
📄 filing_2024-0117.pdf 📄 permit-records.gov 📄 press-statement-v2.pdf
Timeline
Crowd begins gathering
Spokesperson steps out
Filing confirmed by clerk
Open questions
?Who filed the motion?
?Second hearing date?
?Statement on record yet?
The problem

Going live shouldn't mean losing track of the story.

Reporting live on location means running your own control room — with no control room. LiveDesk is the screen that keeps up with you.

Right now, mid-broadcast

  • Ten browser tabs of filings, permits, and statements, none of them findable fast enough
  • A folder of printed documents getting shuffled on camera, or left behind entirely
  • Trying to remember what's confirmed, what's a rumor, and what you still haven't asked
  • No record of the story's timeline until someone writes it up hours later

With LiveDesk propped nearby

  • Every source document pulled up instantly in one receipts panel, no tab-hunting
  • Your live location, stream feed, and story timeline visible at a glance, off-camera
  • An open-questions board that keeps the unconfirmed clearly separate from the confirmed
  • A running record of the story as it happens — built while you report, not after
How it works

Five panels. One companion screen.

LiveDesk isn't a new way to stream — it's the screen that sits beside your stream, keeping the parts of live reporting that usually live in your head, your tabs, and your paper folder in one organized place.

01

Live map

Your current location, tracked and labeled, so anyone watching your companion screen — or catching up later — knows exactly where the story is happening.

02

Stream feed

Your own live feed, mirrored onto the companion screen, so you can glance at what your audience is seeing without breaking eye line.

03

Documents & receipts

Source documents and public records relevant to the story, pulled up instantly — filings, permits, statements — as chips you can tap open.

04

Timeline

A running, timestamped record of what's happened in the story so far — built in real time as events unfold, not reconstructed afterward.

05

Open questions

A board tracking what's still unconfirmed or unanswered, so nothing important gets lost in the moment and every thread gets followed up on.

Worked example

A breaking story, organized as it happens

A fictional scenario showing how the timeline and open-questions panels fill in live during a fast-moving story.

Fictional example · not a real event

Timeline — "Warehouse District Fire"

Smoke reported near the Fifth Street warehouses; first units dispatched.

Second alarm called; two additional engine companies en route.

Fire official on scene confirms no injuries reported so far.

Adjacent block evacuated as precaution; residents moved to shelter point.

Building owner identified via public property records pulled from the documents panel.

Fictional example · not a real event

Open questions

Was the warehouse occupied at the time of the fire?Unconfirmed

What triggered the second alarm escalation?Awaiting official statement

How long will the evacuated block remain closed?No estimate yet

Who it's for

Built for anyone reporting live on a moving story

LiveDesk is a generic companion tool for live investigation work — not tied to any one broadcaster, streamer, or outlet.

On location

Live-reporting journalists

Anyone covering a courthouse, a protest, a disaster site, or a breaking scene solo — with a phone or tablet propped nearby to keep the whole story straight while they're on camera.

Behind the scenes

Streaming production teams

Producers and researchers supporting a live broadcast remotely, feeding documents and confirmed facts onto the same companion screen the reporter sees.

Independent

Any fast-moving investigation

Independent investigators tracking a developing story who need their evidence, their map, and their questions organized in real time, not reconstructed afterward.

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