Al Mashhad: A Bilingual Digital Newsroom Built for Breaking News
Al Mashhad is an Arabic news platform serving audiences across the region with live coverage, breaking stories, video and short-form reels. Eurisko built its digital publishing platform and news apps: a newsroom with editorial approval flows, wire-service integration and layout control, delivering to web and mobile in Arabic and English, right to left and left to right.
The challenge
A news platform competes on minutes. Stories arrive from reporters and wire services around the clock, every one needs editorial sign-off before it is seen, and the same newsroom has to run breaking banners, scheduled publishing, video, reels and live streams without letting the homepage fall behind. Doing this in Arabic and English at once, with layouts that read correctly in both directions, is where most newsroom systems break.
Al Mashhad needed a platform that gave editors control over every stage, from draft to approval to the position on the homepage, and that monetised the audience through advertising without slowing the reader down.
What we built
Eurisko built the newsroom, the publishing engine and the reader apps as one system: a content platform with approval workflows for articles and video, integrations with international news agencies, SEO and image pipelines built in, and apps that present live, breaking and reels formats natively.
Articles & approval flow
Drafting, review and approval for every article, so nothing reaches the audience without editorial sign-off, with scheduled publishing for planned coverage.
Breaking news & live coverage
Breaking banners and live formats that take priority across the apps and the site the moment the newsroom calls them.
Wire-service integration
Content from third-party providers such as AFP and Reuters flows into the newsroom for editing and publishing alongside original reporting.
Video & reels management
Video with its own approval flow, and reels management for vertical, short-form stories built for mobile audiences.
Layout & language control
Homepage and category layouts managed by editors, with multi-language support that renders correctly right to left and left to right.
SEO, image optimisation & advertising
Image optimisation and SEO best practices built into publishing, and Google Ads integration across platform pages and the video player.
The results
Al Mashhad runs a newsroom that moves at the speed of the story: approvals that take seconds, agency content ready to publish, breaking news that reaches every screen at once, and a monetised, search-friendly platform in both languages. Readers get live, breaking and reels formats designed for the way they actually consume news.
Technology & services used.
Mobile & Mobile App Development in the UAE
Native & cross-platform iOS/Android: Swift, Kotlin, React Native, Flutter.
Web Development in the UAE
Fast, headless, SEO-first websites, portals and web platforms.
UI/UX Design Agency in the UAE
Research-led product design, design systems and interfaces people love.
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