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Wire rewrite time calculator

Rewriting a wire story means taking a news agency story and reworking it for publication. Enter your figures, and the tool calculates how many hours this task takes over a year.

Updated on 1 October 2026

min
€/h
Hours spent rewriting wire stories per year
260 hours
Hours you could recover per year, by your estimate
130 hours

The calculation multiplies the number of wire stories per week, the minutes per story and 52 weeks, then converts the total into hours. The recoverable hours apply your automatable share to that total. The indicative value multiplies those hours by your hourly cost.

The automatable share is your own estimate. The tool does not measure it.

This is an indicative estimate, calculated from your assumptions. It is not a commitment to any result.

Rewriting wire stories in Verbatim

Send Verbatim a wire story, and it rewrites it the way you would. Its style engine was developed with linguists. It measures dozens of features in everything you have published. Every fact stays tied to the excerpt of the wire story it comes from.

See Verbatim on your own work.

Try it free for 14 days, or ask us for a demo built on one of your subjects.