Structural Journalism Forensics

Read the news.
Decode the frame.

Frametra analyzes any news article in real-time — detecting claim pressure, source attribution gaps, editorial bias, and narrative drift. For journalists, students, educators, and anyone who refuses to be misled.

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The method

Three steps to structural clarity

Frametra doesn't label news as "fake" or "real." It deconstructs the architecture of how a story is built — and gives you the tools to decide for yourself.

01 / INSTALL

Add the extension

One click from the Chrome Web Store. Frametra sits quietly in your browser, ready when you need it — no account required for basic analysis.

02 / SCAN

Analyze any article

Visit any news page and click Analyze. Frametra reads the article's structural composition — not its conclusions — and returns a real integrity score in seconds.

03 / VERIFY

Act on the findings

Compare coverage, trace narrative timelines, audit your own drafts, or generate a certified PDF report for editors, assignments, or institutional review.

The forensics engine

What Frametra actually measures

Six independent signals analyzed on every article. No black boxes, no political labels — structural forensics you can verify yourself.

Claim Pressure

Detects density of unverified assertions — hedged language, alleged claims, and anonymous sourcing relative to article length.

Source Attribution

Counts and qualifies direct attribution signals: named sources, institutional references, official statements, and traceable quotes.

Editorial Integrity

Measures emotive vocabulary density and passive voice ratio to identify advocacy framing vs. neutral reportage.

Evidence Signals

Flags quantitative evidence: data citations, numeric references, and direct quotations that ground claims in verifiable reality.

Narrative Timeline PRO

Traces how a story's framing has shifted across publication cycles and compares structural evolution across outlets.

Structural Certificate WRITER+

One-time PDF certification of an article's integrity score — accepted by editors, usable for academic submissions, timestamped and ID-verified.

Source Diversity Analysis INVESTIGATOR

Identifies and classifies every named source by type — authority, political, expert, organizational, citizen, media — revealing who is and isn't being heard. Based on the JeRI methodology (Adamson & Malik, Toronto Metropolitan University).

Export Full Report PDF INVESTIGATOR

One-click export of the complete analysis — all signals, source diversity breakdown, narrative shifts, cross-source flags, and verdict — as a single printable PDF.

Who it's for

Built for everyone who reads critically

Whether you write the news, study it, teach it, or investigate it — Frametra gives you the structural layer most media consumers never see.

Journalists & Editors

Audit your own drafts for structural balance before submission. Catch unintended emotive framing or attribution gaps. Generate a certified integrity report your editor can verify independently.

Writer Pro

Students & Academics

Cite sources with confidence. Analyze news articles for media literacy assignments. Submit a Frametra Structural Certificate alongside your essay as evidence of source quality. Available on every campus.

Education Tier

Investigators & Researchers

Trace narrative evolution across time and publication cycles. Compare structural framing across multiple outlets covering the same event. Analyze source diversity using the JeRI taxonomy. Export forensic-grade PDF reports for institutional review or academic publication.

Investigator Pro

Informed Readers

You don't need a press card to demand better information. Frametra's free tier gives every reader the same structural lens used by professionals — no subscriptions required to get started.

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Analysis Services

Frametra as a service — delivered to your inbox.

Fixed price. Fixed turnaround. No retainer. We run the analysis, you get a documented, citable Frametra report. Three services built for journalists, editors, and communications professionals who need structural forensics applied to real work.

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Pre-Publication Review

Structural review before you file

$99 per article

Send your draft before filing. We run it through Frametra, identify the specific sentences driving attribution gaps or claim pressure issues, and return annotated notes plus a Structural Integrity Certificate within 24 hours.

From our Style Guide

"Every significant claim needs a named source. When in doubt, attribute. The higher the claim pressure score, the more specific your revision notes will be."

  • ✓Signal-by-signal annotation of your draft
  • ✓Specific sentence-level revision notes
  • ✓Structural Integrity Certificate included
  • ✓24-hour turnaround
For freelancers, investigative journalists, and anyone filing a story that needs to hold up.
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Newsroom Structural Audit

Your coverage — assessed structurally

from $500 per audit

We analyze 20–50 published articles from your outlet and deliver a written report: which signals are consistently weak, which beats carry the highest claim pressure, where source diversity is falling short across your coverage.

From our Newsroom SOP Kit

"The most common source diversity failure is not deliberate exclusion. It is the invisible default: reaching first for the sources that are easiest to reach."

  • ✓20–50 articles analyzed across all six signals
  • ✓Pattern identification by beat and journalist
  • ✓JeRI source diversity breakdown
  • ✓Written report with specific recommendations
For editors, news directors, and communications teams who want a documented picture of their structural patterns.
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Coverage Analysis Report

How your subject is being covered

from $300 per report

We run a corpus of articles mentioning your organization, issue, or sector through Frametra and deliver a scored breakdown: source patterns, anonymity rates, editorial language trends, and which outlets are treating your subject most and least rigorously.

From our Source Diversity Framework

"A story scoring 78 (PASS) might still show heavy overrepresentation of Authority sources with zero Citizen voices — a structurally significant finding for stories about communities directly affected by policy."

  • ✓30–50 articles scored across all signals
  • ✓Outlet-by-outlet structural comparison
  • ✓Source diversity and anonymity rate analysis
  • ✓48-hour turnaround
For communications directors, public affairs teams, NGOs, and researchers tracking coverage patterns.
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✓No retainer required
✓Fixed pricing — no surprises
✓Citable, documented output
✓24–48 hour turnaround
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Pricing

Start free. Upgrade when you need more.

No credit card required for the free tier. Cancel anytime on paid plans.

Monthly
Annual Save up to 30%

Writer Pro: $9/mo or $79/yr  ·  Investigator Pro: $19/mo or $149/yr  ·  Team Starter: $59/mo or $499/yr  ·  Team Pro: $99/mo or $799/yr

Reader

The informed baseline

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forever

Real structural analysis on every article. No fake scores, no bias labels — honest forensic heuristics, always free.

  • ✓Real-time heuristic integrity score
  • ✓Claim pressure analysis
  • ✓Source attribution signals
  • ✓Editorial integrity read
  • ✓Compare coverage (Google News)
  • —AI deep analysis
  • —PDF certificates
  • —Narrative timeline
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Writer Pro

For creators of the record

$9/month
$79/year — save $29

AI-powered structural analysis with draft auditing and PDF certificates for editors and submissions.

  • ✓Everything in Reader
  • ✓AI deep structural analysis
  • ✓Pre-flight draft audit
  • ✓PDF Structural Certificate
  • ✓Emotive tone mapping
  • ✓Narrative shift detection
  • —Cross-source forensics
  • —Forensic PDF export (full)

Investigator Pro

Full forensic suite

$19/month
$149/year — save $79

Complete narrative forensics for investigators, researchers, and senior journalists tracking stories across time.

  • ✓Everything in Writer Pro
  • ✓Source Diversity — JeRI Analysis
  • ✓Full narrative timeline
  • ✓Cross-source comparison
  • ✓Export full report PDF
  • ✓Historical domain reliability
  • ✓Priority AI processing
  • ✓Email support (24h)

Education

For institutions & classrooms

Custom
institutional pricing

Site licence for colleges, universities, journalism schools, and K-12 programs. Includes classroom dashboards and volume certificates.

  • ✓All Investigator Pro features
  • ✓Unlimited student seats
  • ✓Classroom dashboard
  • ✓Teacher-verified certificates
  • ✓LMS integration support
  • ✓Bulk certificate export
  • ✓Dedicated account manager
  • ✓Canadian .ca portal
Contact for Pricing

One-Time Purchase — No Subscription Required

The Frametra Structural
Integrity Certificate

Proof that you did the work. A single-purchase PDF certificate that documents the structural forensic analysis of any article or written draft — accepted by editors, usable for academic submissions, and independently verifiable.

Frametra
Structural Integrity Certificate
Certificate ID
FT-K9X2M4
Article Analyzed
How disinformation spreads in closed networks
reuters.com · April 17, 2026
82
Score
PASS
Structural Integrity: High
Strong attribution density. Low emotive modifier count. Neutral editorial stance.
Claim Pressure
Low unverified claim density detected
Source Attribution
6 direct attribution signals found
Editorial Integrity
Neutral-to-objective stance indicated
Evidence Signals
9 numeric references · 4 quotes
Jane Smith — Journalism Student, Carleton University
Analyzed via Frametra AI-Verified · reuters.com
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What the certificate includes

  • ✓Unique certificate ID — independently verifiable, timestamped to the minute
  • ✓PASS / CONDITIONAL / FAIL verdict — with a plain-language explanation your editor can read
  • ✓Full sourcing breakdown — claim pressure, attribution density, editorial read, evidence signals
  • ✓Print-ready A4 PDF — attach to essays, editorial submissions, or institutional reports
  • ✓Your name and institution — personalised to the analyst, not just the article

Who buys single certificates? Students attaching source verification to assignments. Freelance journalists submitting contested stories. Writers who need one certificate for a specific piece without a monthly commitment.

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Writer Pro includes unlimited certificates for $9/month.

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All plans include a 7-day free trial. Payments processed securely via Stripe. Frametra Technologies Inc. — London, Ontario, Canada.

Research & Resources

Not ready to subscribe?
Start with a single document.

White papers, curriculum packs, practitioner guides, editorial policy templates, and working tools — built on the same methodology that powers Frametra. One-time purchases. Instant download. Starting at $12.99.

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Methodology
Frametra Methodology Guide
$12.99
Curriculum
Media Literacy Curriculum Pack
$34.99
Newsroom
Newsroom Standards & SOP Kit
$149
AI & Media
AI & Synthetic Media Analysis Module
$29.99

Early access feedback

From our beta community

★★★★★

"Finally a tool that doesn't just slap a bias label on a story. The claim pressure breakdown actually shows me where to focus my verification work."

M. Rodriguez
Digital journalist, US
★★★★★

"I use it in my media literacy seminar. Students are genuinely surprised when they see the structural difference between a wire report and an editorial."

P. Kumar
Journalism educator, India
★★★★☆

"The certificate feature is genuinely useful. I attached one to a contested story I'd written and my editor could see the sourcing breakdown without reading the whole piece again."

S. Barrett
Freelance writer, UK

For organisations

Trial Frametra
with your team

Get your whole newsroom, research team, or editorial department running on Frametra — free for 30 days. No credit card. No automatic billing. I'll onboard you personally.

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You choose exactly how many users get access. No more, no less.
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Trial length matched to your team
5–20 users get 14 days. 21–49 get 30 days. 50+ get up to 60 days.
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Full feature access
No watered-down version. Your team gets Investigator Pro access from day one.
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I'll personally get your team activated and check in at the midpoint to answer questions.

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Frametra for Canadian institutions

Journalism programs, college libraries, and K-12 media literacy curricula — Frametra.ca offers institutional licensing with Canadian data residency, bilingual support, and curriculum-aligned documentation.

Or email directly: education@frametra.ca

Questions

Frequently asked

No. Frametra does not label news as true or false, left or right, credible or not. It analyzes the structural architecture of how a story is written — source attribution, claim density, editorial language — and gives you the data to make your own judgment. We believe informed readers are more valuable than algorithmic verdicts.
The score is a weighted composite of six signals: source attribution quality (28%), emotive language density (25%), claim pressure (20%), epistemic hedging (10%), evidence signals (10%), and passive voice ratio (7%). A higher score means the article demonstrates stronger structural transparency — more named sources, more evidence, less loaded language. It is not a political judgment.
The Structural Integrity Certificate documents the structural analysis of an article or draft at a specific point in time. It includes the integrity score, verdict (PASS / CONDITIONAL / FAIL), sourcing breakdown, editorial read, and a unique certificate ID. It is designed to be attached to editorial submissions, academic papers, or institutional reports as evidence of source quality review. It is not a guarantee of factual accuracy.
No. All free-tier heuristic analysis runs entirely locally in your browser. No article content leaves your device. Paid-tier AI analysis sends article text to the Anthropic API for processing — this is disclosed in the extension. We do not log article URLs, store browsing data, or sell user data. See our Privacy Policy for full details.
Payments are processed securely by Stripe. Monthly plans renew every 30 days. Annual plans renew once per year. You can cancel at any time from your account dashboard — your access continues until the end of your billing period. There are no cancellation fees. We offer a 7-day full refund on first-time subscriptions.
Yes. Students with a valid .edu or institutional email can access Writer Pro at 50% off by contacting us at education@frametra.com. Institutional site licences for colleges and universities are available — contact us for custom pricing based on enrollment. Canadian institutions should visit frametra.ca.
Frametra is currently a Chrome extension (Manifest V3). It works on all Chromium-based browsers including Chrome, Brave, Edge, and Arc. Firefox and Safari versions are on the roadmap.

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