Newspapers on Drupal

I was wondering if anyone had discovered a way to fetch AP Webfeeds using FeedAPI on Drupal 6?

So far, I can't seem to get anything to go through. I'd like to be able to retrieve the data and use the Mapper to create nodes, but I don't know if that's going to be possible with the current feed parser.

Can any one help me what module are required for web like www.tnol.co.id

Thanx

I realize this is probably not the best place to ask this one, but the developer of Mime Mail seems to be pretty much inactive, and I figured some other folks in the newspaper industry might have run across this one.

I'm using Simplenews, Drupal 6, and Mime Mail to create a daily newsletter of our top stories. I've created a view called Newsletter and used PHP to call the different blocks I've set up to display the story title, the thumbnail image, and the teaser text.

I think it would be good to give an extra visibility to the proposed sessions in media related field for the next DrupalCon in Paris.

It's time to register http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/user

Once registered :

You can register your vote by clicking on the link "I may attend this session" under each writeup. It will help for the final choice of the sessions in case we have too many proposals http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/schedule.

Or you can make a session proposal to share your latest media related achievements http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/node/add/session :

Hi everyone,

We've just launched a new news-site using Drupal. http://www.theblogpaper.co.uk/. We aim to publish the first free user generated newspaper in London UK by the End of August/ Beginning of September 2009.

So the concept in a nutshell basically is that users of theblogpaper.co.uk can upload articles, photos and engage in discussions. The highest rated and most discussed content will be promoted to the printed version of the blogpaper. Our intention is basically to create a weekly review of what has been going on within the blogging community, and what the community found worthy to be printed and is read by potentially more. Our main goal is to create a platform for bloggers, citizen journalists, photographers and other "content creators" which allows them to get further exposure and maybe reach out to new readerships.

I hope you won't mind me picking your brain here, but I was looking at your site, and I love the way you guys have that slideshow of images and captions in the story.

I was wondering which modules you were using for that effect if you don't mind me asking. I'm struggling to get the same type of effect on our new site, and it hasn't been going well for me so far.

I've been using imagefield and cck, with Lightbox, but I can't seem to get captions to show, nor can I create that sort of slideshow effect with it.

Any tips you could throw my way would be very very helpful.

Thanks sir.

Hi all

I want to display weather in my site how to do this

which module is to be used

i want to display the following cities weather Bangalore,Managalore,Mysore,Hassan,Belgaum

Please suggest a method to display the weather continuosly and wether there is any alternate module or method to display weather please suggest that method also

i will be grate full to everyone

thanks to all

jayaprakash

Hello,
I'm brand spanking new to Drupal and to this forum. I poked around a bit and didn't see anything posted on this topic yet.

I've just taken on a freelance project to create a newspaper (or newspaper-like) website for a client. So far what I know is that he wants to have different departments (I'm assuming things like "current events", "sports", "entertainment", etc.) and he also wants several different people to contribute content. He wants to be able to post different types of content: text, slideshows, videos, etc. Knowing this, Drupal sounds like a good solution.

Hello all

i am also facing same problem in work flow
i have create publishing work flow with state as draft,review,rework,unpublished and published and created a n action for that my question is if i change the state from unpublished to publish state why the content remains in not published state weather i am doing wrong thing or should we click on publish in publishing option inorder to publish the content please any one could suggest an idea how to do automating publishing and un publishing of content using work flow

thanks and regards

I apologize in advance for the dumb question, but for the life of me I can't seem to find the setting to address this.

I am using Taxonomy menu in conjunction with my taxonomy vocabulary and terms to create the menus for our newspaper site. Everything works great when I click on the sub-items (terms) beneath each individual menu items/vocabulary (News, Sports, Lifestyle, Opinion, etc...). So for example, when I click on the sub-menu beneath "News": "Local News", "Local Business", "High Schools", etc... the page opens fine without issue.

David Johnson was wondering how we're handling images without getting sucked into the morass of img_assist and the various rich text editors. Our approach, which has some strengths (simple and idiot-proof) and some weaknesses (these images are not nodes), is as follows:

Both news stories and blogs are CCK content types. The key element is Emfield, more formaly known as the Embedded Media Field module. We use it with its close relatives Embedded Media Import, Embedded Media Thumbnail, Embedded Image Field and Embedded Video Field.

Hi all

I have a problem in posting kannada news

if i copied directly the news in kananda to my tiny mce editor i will paste

but if i save the post it will not take it

and next thing is it will not display in front page also

whst the problem is

please any one help out

thanks and regards

I'm really making headway into having a very usable website here, and I hope I'm not bugging anyone by asking for some expert advice.

I'm wondering how other newspapers, using Drupal 6, are handling online classifieds?

I've noticed there doesn't seem to be a workable out of the box solution for classifieds, especially if one wanted to charge someone to upload a picture, charge by the line inch, etc... But with this many newspapers using Drupal, I figure someone out there has to have done this before, and I'm just wondering what their solution was.

Le Figaro (the oldest and the biggest daily newspaper in France) invite media organisations using Drupal to discuss “Drupal and Media”.

We will stream live our first meeting about the use of Drupal in Media
Stay tuned on Ustream http://www.ustream.tv/channel/drupalmedia Thursday the 11th from 2PM to 5PM Paris's time (8AM to 11AM East Time)
You will be able to tchat and have your input.

Simon Elliott http://groups.drupal.org/user/27802 will translate as we go on the tchat so you can follow our debate

I'm wondering if anyone here can offer a little advice on handling something as simple as an author byline in our workflow.

Our reporters write their stories in NewsEditPro from MediaSpan, and later on in the day our editors drop those into our InDesign pages. Those same editors also handle uploading the stories to our website everynight. This leaves me with the problem of the story being entered by someone who didn't write it.

Is there a slick way to handle getting the right author name on a story?

We're getting close to relaunching our site (information.dk - see http://drupal.org/information.dk) on Drupal 6. We're still using panels. This time it the SUPER panels3 for D6. However we have one concern and that is speed.

On d5 we used panels_preempt, but right now there seems to be no other cache for Panels 3 than Drupals page cache or panels3's simple cache. Have any of you got an alternative?

I'm trying to set up a newspaper site that utilizes images well. I want to be able to upload images inline, but also use those same images elsewhere in galleries, etc...

Ideally, it would be best that the images are nodes.

There is a similar discussion on this that mentions using Node reference to accomplish this. Can someone walk me through how I can do this, if this is the best way to do this?

Also, I need the image to have a captions and photographer credits.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

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p>Bonnier is looking for an experienced Drupal developer to help create innovative new Web sites for a suite of publishing clients.

Is there a way to configure a Views block to not show the first story in a list?

Lets say, for example, I have a block set up to show all the stories in a given Taxonomy. But I want to exclude the first story from that list because I'm using that in a QuickTab, and I don't want redundancy.

Is there a way to set Views to show stories #2-10, and not story #1?

I appreciate any answers. I think I'm close to doing what I need to do with Drupal and only have a few more stumbling blocks to get around.

Why image appears under the heading should be above the heading, some one help me please, im use drupal 6, imagefield, image cache

Hi all

i need help

How editors approves the news posted by any uses such as reporters or may be publishers
online approving system

i need help for workflow how can we go about this and also

how news is handled for different sections and how its carried out
like how section editor can view different sections news and get approved and placed online to website

please please help out with this or nay suggestion is also welcome

thanks and regards
jp

Hi all

I need the following stuffs to help out
editorial approval mockup:-
there should be a grid where the editor can see all the articles waiting approval for different sections for different days

how can we go about this in newspaper

any one could please help me out what module should it be used and how to integrate
i will be grate full
thanks and regards
jp

Gonzocamp in Seattle (May 22) gets thumbs up. Camp involved Drupalistas and Journalistas of various stripes.
Read about it here:

FAQ: http://gonzocamp.com/faq
Twitter: http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23gonzocamp
Registration: http://gonzocamp.eventbrite.com/ (closed)
Pages Like: http://blog.pageslike.com/
Whose News: http://whose-news.com/ example: Wired.com
News Map: http://gonzocamp.listology.com/ (it's a list, not enough time to add a map)

Report by Greg Dunlap: http://heyrocker.com/drupal/content/gonzocamp-seattle
Greg planning a tech followup report

Theming a node in the node.tpl.php only gives you to options, full page view or teaser! What do you do, if you want to theme the same node in several different ways depending on what region the node is shown in?

The thing I'm trying to do is, to have a node (an article) be a top story in the "Top story" region one day, and another story in another region the other. That is, I want to be able to theme a node differently depending on region.

I would like to do it in node.tpl.php, but as I see it, there are no variables available in a node that can tell you what region the node is in.

Maybe I'm just not getting it, and it's really simple, but I'm lost here.

Lets say I set up either a Category or a Taxonomy vocabulary for Sports. I have a node, we'll say it's node 10, which I have mapped as Sports.

How do I create a story, and get it to appear on just the Sports node? I'm beating my head up against a wall here, and I think I'm just missing what's probably a very simple answer.

Any help would be appreciated.

Hi, can any one help me how to make website like this, use what module?

Thanks

Hello,

am working in newspaper website and I want to use Drupal, I installed it in my localhost and everything is running well,
I hope to custome my Drupal website to be like this one :
http://www.awan.com/

or this :
http://www.al-akhbar.com/

I tried to install E-Journal module but I didnt know how do I used it...!!

Please help me to do that.

Reagrds

090520 13.04

Hi
It seems you started a Wiki page with this question, so it isn't possible to post any comments. Instead I write directly on the page.

Jacksonville.com, the website of the Florida Times-Union, won the 2009 EPpy award for "Best Community Service Application in a Media-Affiliated Web Site with fewer than one million unique monthly visitors" for its social media efforts. The Drupal-based site features open blogging for the community, Twitter integration, and social networking tools such as buddy lists and profiles. The site relaunched on the Drupal platform last December.

We wrote code for Drupal 5/Ubercart 1.x to implement Classified Ads that could be purchased online and are then copied by Customer Service Reps for print publication. The parts that deal with print aspects could, of course, be skipped for an online-only system.

The basic elements:

1. The custom module: 'our_classifieds.module'
2. Product Nodes
   • Taxonomy
   • Attributes
3. jQuery snippets
4. Requires custom_price module (uc_custom_price)

Justin McLachlan has created a Ning network, Journalists / Coders, that might be of interest to some of the folks here. I created a Drupal group within it. So far, the site seems dominated by Django/Rails users, so feel free to change that. :-)

Hey all,

I've seen a few services on the web that offer a widget or plugin to a web site to automatically populate the show times for a particular area. Fandango, to mention one.

The newspaper site I'm building needs to have film listings available on it, and currently, all we are doing is copying and pasting the show times from our paper into our CMS (non-Drupal as of now), and we need to update those same files each week for the films coming up. Ya, not a classy way to show events.

Seit ein paar Wochen sitze ich an einer Webseite, in der Kandidaten der Bundestagwahl zu politischen Themen befragt werden.

Das Ergebnis der Befragung soll grafisch aufgearbeitet werden und nach verschiedenen Kriterien dargestellt werden.

Zur Zeit sitze ich an der Erfassung der Fragebogen und der Zuordnung zu bestimmten Benutzern. Als nächstes will ich die Ergebnisse der Befragungen grafisch auf der Startseite platzieren.

Danach will ich Landkarten der gesamten Bundesrepublik als SVG-Karten abbilden und mit den Ergebnissen der Befragung darstellen.

Hi,

I want to make a theme that can display the same front page theme layout for some categories/links .

For instance the site will have News categories like local, national, international, business,etc. Each menu link to these should display the same home front page format. And news promoted to front page to these categories should move to the corresponding front pages. I have seen the same for esciencenews.com

Any ideas, inputs to achieve this will be highly appreciated.

Thanks a lot.

Mansoor

Hi!

I am glad to share with you all that we recently launched a science fiction site http://kalkion.com which runs fully on GLAMP server and is powered by Drupal. I trust this is the first science fiction site running on powerful drupal. We tested Joomla, Wordpress and many more, only Drupal came out as winner. Thanks Drupal for enabling us in achieving our dream and goal.

Hi to Newspaper Group drupal

i am new to drupal how can we bulid a newspaper site in drupal , i am using the latest version of drupal ie Drupal 6.10 i want a full discription about theming what are important modules to be used and also views to be used
how we can go about this i have searched a lot but no one is able to give full details
This time hope so will give a full details abot this
which is bestmethod to go around it and play

thanks

Hi all! I was just introduced to this group by Ken Rickard from Palantir. I posted a case study for the Saint Louis Review, a local Catholic diocesan newspaper with an audience of about 500,000 Catholics in the metro area on my website: Case Study: St. Louis Review.

We're looking for options to better integrate our Editorial process into our website and, as part of that project, we have been turned on to Woodwing Enterprise 6 Content Publishing Platform (http://woodwing.com/).

Woodwing is touted as a "three-tiered content management and publishing system" that "connects to Adobe InDesign, InCopy, Web content management systems and a slew of third-party applications".

WoodWing Enterprise 6 claims to offer integration with "any type of content repository" but with out-of-the-box integration with Drupal.

Hi, I'm a brand new guy, just getting his first look at Drupal. There are some things I am wondering about.

I am designing a website for a community newspaper, a daily, and am interested in Drupal as a CMS solution. Our site has the following feaures, or will have in the near future...

About 12 news categories including local news, sports, entertainment, blogs, etc...
About 50 subcategories. For example news -> World News
Classifieds
Photo Galleries
Social Networking, commenting on stories, etc.
Reader Blogging
Video blogs
Paid premium content

Hi there... I am flummoxed by a Multi Views Multi Pagers (one view embedded in the other) problem (Views 2, Drupal 6):

I am working on a magazine site. We have Issues, and Issues have Articles. I have created a view that lists Articles based on the related Issue (one at a time, with a pager). I have created another View that lists Issue's Covers (one at a time, with a pager), and used a .tpl file to embed the list_articles view.

Updated.

This post inspired by reply of http://groups.drupal.org/user/6482 in similar post.

So, I need "enterprise" solution and can't figure out the way to do.
Imagefield is not acceptable for that.
I want reuse my images.

Example:
I have article about local event. There was vip-person on this event and sponsors.
Sponsors images will appear only here in this article.
vip-person image i get from "vip-person" gallery
event images from "This event" gallery

What is the easiest way for editor to add article and images to drupal?

Hi all. I've received quite a few queries about how things are going with the InDesign Integration Kit (IIK) package and the Chimp layout automatisation software. I'm happy that so many people are excited about the project and I'd like to give you an update on where we're headed.

(If you don't know what I'm talking about you should probably see the linked post first :-))

Eaccelerator is causing a Segmentation fault on our server. When the segmentation fault occurs the site is accessible, only the node pages are not. There is no error logged in the eaccelerator log. Only error logged is a segmentation error in apache:

child pid <22103> exit signal Segmentation fault (11)

On restart the site starts functioning and error is fixed.

The server conf details:
Hardware Component:
2 Seagate \ 146GB:SAS:15K \ ST3146855SS
4 Generic \ 2048 MB \ DDR2 667 ECC
1 Intel \ 2.13 GHz 1066FSB - Kentsfield \ Xeon 3210 (Quad Core)

Hi everybody,

I started using Drupal a few months ago and am now redesigning the newspapers website that I work for. Before, we had a local web development company creating it for us, but they've become pretty unresponsive to your requests over the past year, so we've decided to create it in-house using Drupal.

Maybe this is a newbie question, but I'm sure everybody has ran into. It regards sections for our news site.

I have set up a Taxonomy vocabulary called "Sections" and inside of it there is a hierarchy for our consistent articles that run each week. Example:

News

A major Buenos Aires newspaper has invited me to give a presentation early next week on using Drupal.

Apart from the obvious opportunity for myself individually, I feel that the talk will be a great responsibility in that I am representing Drupal itself, and not simply my own services.

I have some great ideas for the presentation, but in light of this responsibility, I would like to receive input from this group in particular.

Does anybody on the forum have any experience with the VMIX online video platform (http://www.vmix.com)?

Would it be something that is easy to integrate into a Drupal site?

Thanks,

Geoff

I'm looking for the best way to set up a email newsletter service within our Drupal site.

We currently send weekly emails to a subscriber list that exists outside our CMS (we use CommuniGate Pro: LIST Module), but it is limited to simply managing the mail list and we want to move to a system that will give us options like tracking, reports, and perhaps even integration with taxonomy, etc.

Hi All,
I wish to convert a small local newspaper site (pretty standard installation with views and CCK, and a nice theme) to allow identical pages to be displayed of a different language.
e.g. all pages are currently in english but if say a user clicks the "switch to spanish" link on the footer, all the pages will have spanish content, pulled from the same database. Exact same menu structure (only translated into spanish)

The Georgetown Hoya (http://www.thehoya.com) recently made the transition to Drupal about a year ago. We're now looking to upgrade to Drupal6, but wanted to get some feedback from the development/drupal community on the progress we have made so far. Please let me know your thoughts!

Hey everyone,

Just wanted to hear your feedback on our newspaper website, The Harvard Voice, that was built entirely on Drupal. This is still a "beta" version,
with a lot of things, like our video player, yet to be finished. But we'd love to hear what you guys think about it.

Check it out here:
http://www.thehvoice.com/

Thanks!
M.

The Swiss Drupal User Group is organizing the Drupal Media Camp with a special focus on the media and Drupal in Aarau, Switzerland. It will be covering:
- how Drupal can be used to develop complex web based media solutions and
- what is happening in the Drupal community in the media area.
We are interpreting the term media to mean all web media including video, audio, pictures, publishing, communities etc.

The conference is targeted towards: