NEWSROOM THEME

The Grid Index.
A real-time newsroom theme.

A premium newsroom theme built for editorial brands, aggregators, magazines, and digital newsrooms covering AI, Tech, Startups, and Cybersecurity — designed for speed, signal, and source transparency.

Real-time newsroomLight editorial modeSource-first design
FRONT PAGE

The newsroom, embedded.

thegridindex.com
GIThe Grid Index.
BREAKING
Humanitarian parole denied for deported parents of U.S. citizen girl with rare brain tumor · Memorial Day Sales 2026
01 / 05 ‹ ›
DEVELOPINGNEWS17 sources

A Crack in the Polling Floor Puts Trump in New Territory

A 37 percent approval rating in a new Times/Siena poll suggests the G.O.P. is facing a big midterm problem despite recent redistricting gains.

NEW YORK TIMES · 2 HOURS AGO

Accelerating Stories

MOMENTUM ACROSS SOURCES
NEWS
Hantavirus-hit cruise ship arrives in Netherlands, ending long and deadly voyage
NBC NEWS · 3 HOURS AGO
NEWS
Lescure Says European Economy 'Proving Quite Resilient'
BLOOMBERG POLITICS · 5 HOURS AGO
NEWS
France's Lescure Sees Economy Bouncing Back in Second Quarter
BLOOMBERG POLITICS · 5 HOURS AGO

Top Stories

UPDATED CONTINUOUSLY
NEWS
Trump Filing Reveals Stake in Sushi Chain Alongside Big Tech
NEWS
Bond Ructions Gatecrash Talks by G-7 on Skewed World Economy
NEWS
Americans Among Those Affected by Ebola Outbreak, C.D.C. Says
NEWS
US Envoy Arrives in Greenland to 'Make Friends,' He Tells DR
NEWS
Oil Prices Edge Higher as Cease-Fire Remains Tenuous
NEWS
Catastrophe Is Emerging in the World's Most Vulnerable Places

Topic Dashboard

DESKS ACROSS GRID INDEX
AI19
  • Meta's Embrace of A.I. Is Making Its Employees Miserable
  • Elon Musk's SpaceX Plans $55 Billion Investment to Make A.I. Chips
  • Can the U.S. Rein in Prediction Markets? + Joanna Stern on Her Year of A.I. Experiments
  • Meditating or Rebooting? A Robot Buddhist Monk Comes to South Korea.
Tech28
  • ABC refuses to capitulate to Trump admin, fights FCC probe into The View
  • Sony says 'efficient' AI tools will lead to even more games flooding the market
  • The unprecedented and deadly cruise ship hantavirus outbreak, explained
  • Asus chases Elgato with its own secondary touchscreen display
Source Intelligence
  • 01
    Mamdani's First City-Owned Grocery Store Is Planned for the South Bronx
    11 minutes ago
  • 02
    New Ebola outbreak fuels mounting global alarm as U.S. works to relocate affected Americans
    17 minutes ago
  • 03
    Rep. Thomas Massie enters primary as a Trump target and the U.S. hantavirus 'hot spots': Morning Rundown
    31 minutes ago
  • 04
    Trump's Push to Punish GOP Dissenters Creates Risks for Party
    33 minutes ago
  • 05
    Cutthroat Texas Runoff Pits Two Trump Allies Against Each Other
    35 minutes ago
TRENDING ENTITIES
#The Verge 10#NY Times Tech 10#Ars Technica 8#Variety 7#BBC World News 4
DAILY INTELLIGENCE

The signal cut from today's sources. One brief, every morning.

Latest

  • NEWS
    Trump Filing Reveals Stake in Sushi Chain Alongside Big Tech
  • NEWS
    Bond Ructions Gatecrash Talks by G-7 on Skewed World Economy
  • NEWS
    Americans Among Those Affected by Ebola Outbreak, C.D.C. Says
  • NEWS
    US Envoy Arrives in Greenland to 'Make Friends,' He Tells DR
  • NEWS
    Oil Prices Edge Higher as Cease-Fire Remains Tenuous
  • NEWS
    Catastrophe Is Emerging in the World's Most Vulnerable Places
EDITORIAL MODULES

Built like a real newsroom.

Every component above is a first-class theme feature — not a generic blog block.

BREAKING

Breaking ticker

A live red ticker pinned to the top of every page, auto-promoting stories above a velocity threshold.

DEVELOPING

Hero lead story

Full-bleed lead card with developing/news tags, source count, and 'Open post' action.

Most Accelerating

Accelerating stories

Horizontal rail ranking stories by momentum across your tracked sources.

01
02
03

Source Intelligence

Sidebar listing the latest signal from every tracked source — numbered, ranked, timestamped.

#The Verge 10#NYT 10#Ars 10#Variety 10

Trending Entities

Auto-built tag pills for entities (companies, people, topics) trending across your stories.

AI19
Tech28

Topic Dashboard

Desk-style cards for AI, Tech, Startups, Cybersecurity — each with its own live story list.

2h
2h
2h

Live feed

Continuous 'Latest' stream at the foot of every page — every new story, with relative timestamps.

Daily Intel
Subscribe

Daily Intelligence

Built-in newsletter signup designed to capture readers without a third-party plugin.

LIVE · MON · 07:44

Live header status

A persistent LIVE indicator with weekday, date, and current time — always visible to your readers.

UNDER THE HOOD

Fast, semantic, transparent.

Clean PHP, semantic HTML, structured metadata on every story, and source attribution baked into the templates. No bloated page builders, no tracking scripts — just a newsroom-grade frontend that loads fast and lets your content lead.

thegridindex / live
online
📡 Real-time ingestionActive
88%
🔎 SEO templatesActive
92%
🛡 Source attributionActive
100%
⚙ CustomizerActive
76%

Want to see it running live?

Step inside the demo newsroom — every module above, populated with real stories, updating in real time.