Saga News
Companion app to Saga Newsroom
Only for iPhone
Free
The Saga News app is a companion app to the story-centric newsroom tool, Saga. The app offers the journalist chat functionality, instant notifications and an overview of tasks, options to upload media and browse stories and rundowns the rest of the organisation is working on.
Saga runs in the cloud, equipping journalists with one unified tool for all platforms, including planning, creating and publishing stories to a TV-rundown, CMS web solution and social media channels.
An existing Saga account is required to use the app.
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more This is a roll-back to the previous version 1.11.5 due to unforeseen issues with opening Instance details.
1.11.13 2h ago
Story and Pitch titles are now editable
Fix for uploading large media files sometimes crashing the app
Fix for sometimes displaying wrong result when opening the Bookmarks page
Fix for rundown automation icons not displaying correctly
Fix for correctly fetching correct content for details views
Fix for correctly handling errors for the Daily Note content
1.11.6 Apr 7
• Daily Notes can now be edited
• Added pull to refresh to Tasks page
• Improvement to filtering UI components in search and filtering
• Rundown thumbnails now show in Rundown list
• Fix for long rundown line numbers being hidden
1.11.5 Feb 27
- Added filtering functionality for Feeds
- Rundown Instances now show correct background colors
- Fixes to rundown timing fields not displaying correctly
1.10.7 Feb 10
• Planning item icons now support color.
• You can now pull to refresh in the Rundown details view.
• Resolved an issue that sometimes caused the Rundown Presenter view to show incorrect data.
1.10.5 Jan 28
Fixed a problem for Instance details sometimes not loading
1.10.4 Jan 15
- New and improved Rundown list and details view
- Fixed an error sometimes happening when showing Instance details or Daily Notes
1.10.3 Jan 9
Fixed a crash sometimes occurring when opening a story with assets.
Fixed a crash when opening a story with no priority.
Added the possibility to select "No Priority".
Added functionality to hide "Add media"-button if Pitches are not synced with Mimir.
1.10.2 12/20/2025
Faster loading of assets with improved delivery mechanisms.
App-wide Organizations support
Synchronize LiveU with stories
Free text search in Feeds
New default date filter is “+7 days” in search
Fixed a problem with loading Instance content
1.10.0 12/17/2025
NEW:
New Story details screen with better layout and usability for browsing story details
Front page: Stories are now sorted by priority
Search: New filter option to sort Stories by priority
FIXES:
Correctly display schedule and modified time
Show the Daily Notes for the user's active Organization
Day field type support (MDF)
Corrected the button color when creating a new story pitch
Resolved issue where instance comments weren’t syncing properly
Fixed assignees not displaying correctly on rundown instances
Addressed a crash affecting the iOS date-time picker
1.9.11 11/26/2025
Fix: Missing contacts, teams and users
Fix: Missing story assignees
Fix: Allow audio on video when phone is in silent mode.
Fix: Show schedule time on list items.
Other minor fixes and stability improvements
1.9.6 10/15/2025
New in this version
• Context, Story, and Rundown chats can now be opened directly from their detail views as bottom sheet modals.
• Pull down on the Home page to refresh content.
Improvements
• Prompter now opens the correct Instance when launched from an Instance view.
• In Planning items, contact fields are now clickable and open contact details.
• General user interface improvements.
• “Today’s Assignments” now shows only today’s items, sorted by schedule time, with the option to expand if the list is long.
• Planning items and Tasks are now included in “Today’s Assignments.”
• Added a separate section for “Today’s Stories & Pitches.”
Fixes
• Correct content now opens when navigating from a push notification.
• Fixed occasional missing content in Instance details.
• Fixed playback issues with feed assets.
1.9.5 10/03/2025
General stability and performance improvements
1.8.4 08/28/2025
- Rebranded to Saga News
1.5.2 04/07/2025
- Rebranded the product name and logo artwork to "Saga".
- Improved performance for listing users and contacts
1.5.0 04/03/2025
Added support for Due Date for Planning items
1.4.6 03/18/2025
New:
- Custom priorities for stories
Improvements:
- Better spacing and improved UI for assigned items on Home screen
- Tasks will now display subtasks
- My tasks has been redesigned
- Filter tasks with a search input
- The browse all stories and bookmarks screens has been reworked with a new search UX
- Bugfix to rundown chat
- Several minor performance improvements
1.4.4 12/04/2024
New features:
- You can now inspect user and contacts details (ready only)
- Added support for planning items and story tasks (read only)
Improvements:
- Added support for relation type MDF field in task and planning items
- Added descriptions to Story and Pitch list items
- Planning items can now be filtered via search
- Renamed Notes to Research
1.4.3 10/22/2024
Fixed a problem with opening task details sometimes causing the app to crash
1.3.2 09/06/2024
New Feature:
- View Your Tasks on Mobile: You can now access your tasks on the go (read-only).
Improvements:
- Performance improvements to Chat: We've optimized the chat experience for smoother and faster interactions.
- Story/Pitch Chat Back-link: Navigating between Story or Pitch and their respective chats is now easier with a convenient back-link.
Bug Fixes:
- Notifications for Story Chat Mentions: Mentions in Story chat now appear correctly in your notifications.
- We’ve resolved an issue that occasionally caused the app to crash when viewing instance details.
- Assigned tasks on Home screen should correctly update when changing dates
1.3.1 09/04/2024
- We fixed the issue that was causing assignment notification links not to work. Now they’ll take you where you need to go!
- Minor bugfixes
1.2.4 07/11/2024
The Daily Notes feature is now also available for Dina Mobile
1.2.2 06/12/2024
- Fixed an error causing media uploads to fail.
- Fixed an error preventing the corresponding Mimir-folder to be created when creating a new Story or Pitch.
1.1.9 05/10/2024
- It is now possible to assign members when creating stories and pitches
- Minor UI bug fixed (tap outside FAB buttons)
1.1.8 04/30/2024
- Added a Floating Action Button (FAB) for easy creation of new content and chats from any page
- FAB-menu enables creation of new Story, Pitch, or Chat with a single tap
1.1.6 04/11/2024
This is a roll-back to the previous version 1.11.5 due to unforeseen issues with opening Instance details.
more Version 1.11.13 2h ago
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