ur-grue

Transforms a set of facts about a deceased person into a structured, dignified obituary suitable for publication in a newspaper, magazine, or website.

Writes a complete Instagram caption — including hook, body, call to action, and hashtag set — for a news story, documentary, video, or editorial project, formatted for how Instagram audiences read and discover content.

Writes a professional follow-up email to a journalist, editor, or media contact who has not responded to a previous pitch or request, calibrated to the relationship stage, urgency, and number of prior attempts.

Compiles key events into a structured, scannable timeline — formatted as a table or numbered list — designed for use in graphic production, digital interactives, sidebar fact boxes, and editorial planning documents.

Produces a monitoring plan for tracking changes to a target web page over time — covering change-detection tools, RSS-based monitoring, webhook alerts, and a structured process for logging and archiving each detected change.

Produces a structured research plan for tracing a widely circulated claim back to its original source — mapping the citation chain, identifying where distortion may have occurred, and listing the databases and techniques needed to find the primary source and assess its reliability.

Produces a structured brief summarising the permit requirements, access restrictions, and key contacts needed to film or photograph at a specific location.

Produces a structured research framework that maps the key political actors, power dynamics, fault lines, and contextual background a journalist needs to understand before reporting on a region or country — without making factual assertions about current events that require live verification.

Identifies which museums, national archives, libraries, film institutes, or specialist collections are most likely to hold historical material relevant to your story or documentary subject.

Writes a short, high-click newsletter teaser for a published article — including subject line options, preview text, and the teaser body — ready to paste into an email newsletter platform.

Writes a polished, submission-ready synopsis for a film, documentary, or media project entered into a festival or competition.

Proofread a piece of text and return it with all spelling, grammar, punctuation, and typographical errors corrected — preserving the author's voice and intentional style choices throughout.