Austin Students Launch Newsroom Automation Tool
BeatNews targets newsroom staffing constraints by automating the monitoring of government and agency data feeds.
Updated on Oct. 23, 2026 in Software
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University of Texas at Austin student Shreyan Daulat and co-founder Renil Gupta have launched BeatNews, a software-as-a-service tool designed to automate news monitoring. The platform is currently in use at two major-market broadcast television newsrooms.
Why it matters
The tool addresses the operational bottleneck faced by newsrooms that must monitor numerous government and agency sources with limited time and personnel. By automating this data ingestion, the software aims to streamline the editorial research process for broadcast journalists.
The platform is currently operating in 2 major-market broadcast TV newsrooms. The specific ingestion benchmarks and latency metrics for the service are not yet public.
The players
Shreyan Daulat
A co-founder of BeatNews and currently a senior at the University of Texas at Austin.
Renil Gupta
A co-founder of BeatNews who helped build the monitoring tool.
The details
BeatNews functions as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) tool—a delivery model where applications are hosted centrally and accessed via the web—to monitor government and agency data streams. It centralizes disparate information sources, allowing reporters and editors to filter updates automatically. The software serves as an automated research assistant designed to lower the manual labor requirements for tracking agency reports.
Timeline
October 23, 2026: The software launch is reported.
The Tech Race
BeatNews joins a growing class of automated research tools attempting to solve newsroom information overload. The service enters a field populated by legacy media-monitoring software and emerging AI-driven aggregators.
Broadcast news editors in the U.S. market can expect potential access to the tool as the founders scale operations. The developers plan to expand the service across the country following their graduation.
The takeaway
The founders are scaling the tool for national adoption after their upcoming graduation. Industry professionals should monitor the platform's performance metrics as it expands beyond its two initial broadcast newsroom partners.
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Source note: This article includes information reported by Radio & Television Business Report.
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