Open source newsroom software

It is depressing when one considers all the money and effort that has been used to develop software that ends up never being used. While many news papers and news publishing entities in North America and elsewhere use DJangoquite satisfactorily, the most notable Web presence I have seen using this software is: www. Building an open source newsroom CMS Newsrooms see the light of open source.

Image by :. Get the highlights in your inbox every week. If, on the other hand, your business is news, you need something more than a one-size-fits-all box. Even as news media continue on the path to convergence, the tools to handle each media type retain the need for specialism, and the expertise of specialists to design them.

A system to manage newsroom content will never be complete because it cannot be. New forms of media will continue to emerge and, news being about communication channels and platforms, media houses must get across them rapidly and be properly equipped to use them to compete, and even to survive.

No two newsrooms, no two print sections of newsrooms, no two desks in the same print newsroom, no two online desks, no two broadcast desks, work in the same way. Why would we, then, expect them to run optimally using near-identical tools? Topics CMS. About the author. Vince Ryan - Vince is a production-side press journalist who switched to online news in the mids.

He's worked in online and converged newsrooms ever since apart from one project to develop 3D animation software and has combined his editorial roles with working on CMS design and implementation. Vince likes things to be free, whether free as in 'free beer', or free as in 'no restrictions, jump right in and make it yours'. More about me. Recommended reading A brief history of the Content Management System. Start a blog in 30 minutes with Hugo, a static site generator written in Go.

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