Steve Yelvington: ‘Now’ means ‘now:’ tools for timelines
Friday, 5 December 2008, 00:43
"Our newspaper newsrooms still rely on antiquated, print-centric systems for internal workflow as written copy passes through various stages of editing. … When it's ready for publication, a story can be immediately released to the Web — but you have to be a bit patient, because it then passes through a bucket brigade of software and systems. Eventually it'll show up on the Web, but you'd better not hold your breath. This sort of thing drives a lot of newsrooms to 'fix' the problem by using blog software."
Brand Republic: Jewish Chronicle adds social networking in website revamp
Saturday, 13 September 2008, 11:42
"The Jewish Chronicle has launched a social network in the latest stage of its major website overhaul. Users of thejc.com can now upload their own photos and videos, write blogs, or comment on news stories on the site."
Wednesday, 21 May 2008, 17:54
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"This slideshow showcases dozens of newspaper and journalism websites that use Drupal, the open source social publishing software"
Friday, 1 February 2008, 15:48
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Wow. Print-and-online CMS built on in Drupal and integrated with InDesign via linked XML.
Friday, 1 February 2008, 15:37
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"the editor of Schamper, the student newspaper at the University of Gent (Belgium) describes how he — a philosophy major — built a Web-centric content management system that outputs to Adobe InDesign for print, all based on the open-source Drupal CMS fr
Friday, 1 February 2008, 15:09
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"[Teaching Dreamweaver] not very relevant to journalism, , because it does not include a robust content management system! … Focusing on Dreamweaver teaches exactly the wrong mindset for online journalism: that your Web site is mainly an island unto its
More Southside hyperlocal websites planned for Glasgow
Wednesday, 9 January 2008, 10:02
Southside Media, a not-for-profit citizen media project in Glasgow, is planning to launch five hyperlocal websites covering the G41 and G42, G5, G44 and G45 postcodes of the city, AllmediaScotland reports.
Since 2005, the company has published newspapers for the G41 and G42 postcodes. Drupal-powered web sites are live for those two postcodes.
Last July, the [...]
A daily newspaper site built in WordPress
Thursday, 1 November 2007, 17:18
Britain’s largest paid-circulation regional newspaper, the Express & Star in Wolverhampton, is using the free open source blogging software WordPress as the content management system of its web site, which had 162,820 unique users in April.
Its Midlands News Association sister title, the Shropshire Star (95,612 unique users, 4/2007 ABCe) uses a similar WordPress template.
The [...]
Friday, 21 September 2007, 15:07
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Johannes Wehner explains how Information.dk built a newspaper web site in Drupal in half a year of fulltime development.
Friday, 6 July 2007, 12:44
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Amy Gahran: "[T]he content management system (CMS) any news org chooses can end up making or breaking its online efforts." Question is: clunky legacy product that is designed to support print repurposing or a newer online-centric system?
Saturday, 12 May 2007, 16:09
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"Nikolai Thyssen, online director of Denmark’s national Dagbladet Information, which switched to Drupal in December, said the software’s participatory features - it gives users blogs and is predicated on community responses to articles - are the key."
