This document describes x.news, a news research and collaboration tool. It summarizes that currently, researching news stories involves overloaded screens, multiple logins, searches across different systems and a lack of collaboration and mobility. X.news aims to address these issues by allowing searching across many sources at once from a single interface that can be accessed from any device. It provides features such as previewing search results, saving searches and content, and publishing directly to other systems, helping journalists work more efficiently across locations and platforms.