Vertical · Regional dailies
The conversation infrastructure built for regional dailies.
Regional newsrooms run on proximity, reader trust, and the loop between the printed paper and the local community. Logora powers the digital side of that loop, comments, debates, reader contributions, with the moderation depth a regional editor actually needs.
Reader contributions
"Quel transport ferroviaire pour la Bretagne ?" · 47 submissions to review
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Yann B. · Quimper · soumis il y a 2 j
"Sans la Quimper-Brest, la pointe bretonne perd un service public essentiel. Un audit de la fréquentation par tronçon serait un préalable raisonnable avant toute fermeture définitive."
Published in print - CL
Catherine L. · Rennes · soumis hier
"L'argument de la rentabilité est mal posé : sur une ligne de désenclavement, c'est le coût d'opportunité qui compte, et celui-ci dépasse largement le ticket par voyageur."
To review - PR
Pierre R. · Lorient · soumis hier
"Le car remplace mal le train pour les déplacements pendulaires. J'ai testé pendant trois mois : +45 min par trajet, intercaler les pauses devient impossible."
Pending
- 6 newsrooms major French, German & Belgian regional groups already running Logora May 2026
- 50M+ reader contributions moderated across the platform since 2019 Logora platform total
- 85% of toxic content auto-filtered before reaching the moderation team AI moderation pipeline · default config
Your reality today
What your day actually looks like.
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Reader letters stuck in email
Le courrier des lecteurs is still arriving in a generic inbox. Editors triage by hand, the best contributions get lost, and the print 'Courrier' page is a weekly scramble that nobody enjoys curating.
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Comment volume the local team can't handle
Regional dailies see hundreds of comments per day, peaking on local politics and faits divers. The moderation budget is tight, the moderators are part-time, and toxic threads stay up too long, hurting reader trust.
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No retention story for the digital subscription team
Print is shrinking, the digital subscription product is the future, and the comment section is not in the dashboard. There is no link between the conversation and the subscriber retention KPI.
What changes
With Logora, here is what shows up in your reports.
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A real reader contributions pipeline
Readers submit, editors curate, the best contributions get a "Published in the paper" status flag. The print Courrier page becomes a feature you operate, not a Friday emergency.
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85% auto-moderation, human-in-the-loop on the 15%
The AI pipeline filters spam, slurs, and personal attacks before they reach the team. Your moderators only see the borderline cases, where their editorial judgment actually matters.
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Reader graph in your database, not Facebook's
Every comment, every debate vote, every submitted letter is tied to a reader identity you own. The first-party data your subscription team can finally tie to retention cohorts.
The modules that matter to you
Where to look first.
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Debates module
Structured debate prompts tied to articles. The format that turns a flat comment list into a navigable position map.
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AI moderation
85% auto-handled before reaching your part-time moderators. Built for local newsrooms that can't scale a full moderation desk.
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SSO & gamification
One reader account between paywall, newsletter and comments. The print-to-digital subscription bridge.
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Migration guide
How regional dailies move from Disqus, Viafoura, or a homemade comment table to Logora, with the data, the moderation history, and the SEO intact.
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"A regional daily reader will actually participate, not just react. The structured debate format and a real letters-to-the-editor pipeline turn the comment section from a moderation cost into a feature your editor signs off on."
Quick answers
What we hear on every call.
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Does this work for a regional daily, or do we need national scale?
Regional scale is where the format works structurally. Local debates and local letters benefit from the proximity bond between the paper and its readership, which is exactly what most national titles cannot replicate. We have several regional groups in production across France, Germany and Belgium.
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Can we keep the printed Courrier des lecteurs page tied to the digital submissions?
Yes, that is the entire point of the letters-to-the-editor module. Editors mark a contribution "Publié dans le journal", which surfaces both on the digital widget and in your CMS export feed. The print Courrier page becomes a curated subset of what is happening online, with full attribution.
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Our moderation team is two part-time people. Will this work?
It is designed for that case. Default toxicity thresholds auto-handle 85% of the queue, and the moderation admin lets your two moderators batch-decision the rest in 20-30 minutes per day. We pre-configure the moderation rules with your editor-in-chief during onboarding, so the first day in production matches your editorial standards.
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What about local politics, where threads can turn aggressive fast?
Local-politics threads get an elevated review threshold (configurable per category) and a faster human escalation path. Several of our regional partners have separate moderation rules for elections, public-safety and migration coverage, which the platform supports natively.
A reader conversation that looks like your newsroom.
A 60-minute call with Pierre or Henry. We look at your current comment volume, the printed Courrier des lecteurs workflow, and the digital subscription dashboard. You leave with a model of the impact on your specific regional product.