Newspapers on Drupal

As I move further into our new website, I'm very interested in opening the door for community bloggers. My bosses, of course, want some kind of clear policy in place governing community blogging, before we let people speak their minds on our site.

Can't say I really disagree with them, considering how easy it is to be sued in today's world.

I was curious as to whether or not anyone already had a policy in place for community blogging, or something I could look over to glean a few ideas?

I'm working on building out user badges as a major feature on a news site, where users can submit or vote on various amounts of various types of content to get X or Y badge, some of which give the users new permissions and some of which are merely decoration.

What are the modules you use to administer comments (aka, remove offensive comments) on your sites?

We've been using the Flag module. It meets our needs, but I don't like that I can't have a view of all the users' offending comments. I want an admin interface that gives me in the information to say "I banned you because of x,y and z."

I thought this would be a big topic for the Newspapers on Drupal group but I couldn't find much mention of administrating comments.

Hello,

I’m new to Drupal and I am curious if anyone can explain the best way to create a custom template for an “article” node so that an image with caption floats to the top left of a text area.

My goal is to make this an intuitive process for users, and not require them to do any sort of HTML editing.

Thanks in a advance for any suggestions!

His there any tutorial to start creating a newspaper in Drupal from step 1?

Best regards,

Martino

I am currently using Drupal to build a Business Journal website for our newspaper.

In previous discussions with our corporate office (and web development team), my publisher mentioned that he liked a local site that happened to be built using Joomla. Our corporate development head then proceeded to bash the Joomla platform, as not being adequate for the needs of a newspaper, both for feature and security reasons... which I agree.

I know from the Drupal.org site and others that Drupal has been used to build many high-profile sites (Whitehouse.gov being one of them).

I saw a feature on a TV news station site that basically was a video of a woman and her daughter talking. It was green-screened and laid over the main news page. It was a 10 sec spot highlighting something in the community. Sorry, I can't seem to find the site.

Is there a module built that can allow me to do something like that?

Thanks.

Hello All,
Yet another topic of interest to me is content management, especially the management of e-papers and podcasts, both features that my site provides, and quite a few newspapers provide.

My site will feature a weekly/bi-weekly "e-paper" in PDF form, which I would enjoy delivering via email, as well as a podcast that is 15-30 minutes long, and is published daily. The biggest thing on my mind is, how do I deliver this content to subscribers in a fashion that is 1.easy for them, and 2.visually appealing. What modules and techniques can we take advantage of to deliver our content?