// Journal27 FAQ
What is Journal27?
Journal27 is a free press-wire index of the open web. We maintain 850 sites filed across 22 beats, each one submitted by a correspondent, reviewed at the bureau, and published on the ticker in order of receipt.
Is there a charge to file a site?
No. Filing a bulletin with Journal27 is free, has always been free, and will remain free. There is no premium placement tier, no sponsored position, and no upsell after you submit.
How quickly does my site appear on the wire?
Immediately on submission. Journal27 inserts the bulletin first, returns a confirmation page, and then fetches a brief description of your site in the background. You do not wait in a review queue — the entry goes on the ticker the moment it clears the bureau check.
Why are categories called beats?
Journal27 is structured the way a wire service is structured. Each beat covers one slice of the web, the way a wire bureau assigns a correspondent to one subject area. The Software Desk, the Clinical Bureau, the Casino Wires — each is a named beat with its own ticker feed.
What makes a good bulletin?
A canonical URL with no tracking parameters, the correct beat for the page a visitor will land on, and a short description that says what the site actually does without marketing language. The bureau clears entries faster when the description is plain and accurate.
Can I file more than one site?
Yes — one bulletin per domain. The index carries a unique constraint on the domain column, so a second filing of the same domain will not create a duplicate. If you operate multiple distinct domains, file each one separately.
What order do entries appear in?
Chronological. The most recently filed bulletin sits at the top of the beat ticker; the oldest sits at the bottom. No editorial reorder, no ranking signal, no pay-to-promote position. The wire order is the filing order.
Will an entry ever be removed?
Only if the URL stops resolving for an extended period, the beat assignment becomes clearly wrong, or the site is found to violate the bureau's submission standards. Removals are logged at the bureau and do not affect surrounding entries.
How is Journal27 different from a search engine?
Journal27 does not crawl, rank, or algorithmically sort. It lists what correspondents have filed, in the order they filed it, with no signal beyond the timestamp. Think of it as a press-wire ticker rather than a retrieval engine.
How do I find a specific site or beat?
Use the beat index on the homepage to browse by subject, or scan the Stray Wires for sites that do not fit a named beat. If the site you are looking for is not in the index, file it from the add page.
// About the JOURNAL27
Journal27 is a press-wire bureau index of the open web. We maintain 829 entries across 22 beats, from the Casino Wires and Capital Markets to the Companion Animals Beat and the Stray Wires catch-all. Every entry was submitted by a correspondent, reviewed at the bureau, and put on the ticker in the order it cleared — no algorithm reshuffles the sequence, no sponsored placement moves an entry up the wire. The index began as a project to document what is actually live and reachable on the web, not what search engines surface. If your site is not on the Journal27 wire and you think it belongs, file a bulletin from the add page. It takes a minute and costs nothing.
