Newspapers on Drupal

This is a place for people working at newspapers running on - or planning to run on - Drupal to share ideas, problems and solutions.

Help us build resource pages like these:

The Open Source Newspaper
What can Drupal do for my newspaper?
Media sites using Drupal
Modules for Newspapers
Learning resources

Best way to structure information for optimal performance

Posted by rskhanna on December 14, 2008 at 9:53am

I am not a developer but a very hands-on subject matter expert.

Having been badly burnt by poor performance in the past, I am trying to pre-empt performance issues. Please suggest what is the ideal way to build the site: through taxonomy, content types (CCK) or what?

Expected load:
50-500 users logged in. Approximately 10 times as many anonymous. This may increase further.

Taxonomy:
1500 terms with ten or so cross references:

For example:
Vocabulary 1: all animals
Vocabulary 2: all countries

We Media Changemakers $50,000 Challenge

Posted by agentrickard on December 11, 2008 at 3:15pm

I received the following invite via email today.

Pulling Drupal content to normal .shtml webpage

Posted by amax on December 10, 2008 at 6:15pm

Hi Everyone,

Jacksonville.com and the Morris site management system

Posted by yelvington on December 4, 2008 at 5:07pm

I've previously mentioned that we at Morris have been working on a standard configuration to support moving all of our newspaper sites to Drupal. We began by jumping into the deep end of the pool with our biggest and most complicated problem (oops, I mean newspaper): the Florida Times-Union. We threw the switch Wednesday morning and made the new Jacksonville.com site live.

We do plan to release code, templates and configurations, but we're not nearly ready to do that yet. We have to move on to rebuild the Topeka Capital-Journal's website, CJOnline.com, and evolve a standard setup that we're happy with. Meanwhile, I've been blogging about some of the details, and you can follow along.

How to make newspaper archive?

Posted by Firoj on December 2, 2008 at 9:17am

I'm working on newspaper site. Developing the site using Drupal. I need a static page: where i can search the news archive based on newspaper volume no, or year-month. Any ideas how can i do it?

How to best duplicate this website in drupal?

Posted by ayfine on November 11, 2008 at 12:57am

http://www.grizzlygazette.net/

I would like to duplicate their same effect of how top stories, etc with drupal. I need to be able to select a feature story and have snippets of others on the home page.

thanks

How can I organize 1.200 articles imported from an old joomla site?

Posted by angel.p on November 10, 2008 at 11:10am

Hello everybody, This is my first post here. English is not my mother tongue, so I apologise in advanced if I'm not clear...

I'm working on a cultural magazine which has many sections and categories. After 3 days of hard work I have finally moved from my old joomla portal all articles to my shiny brand new Drupal system which I'm very happy with.

The most difficult thing so far is organising all the contents: I've tried with the category module and simpleviews but still can't find the way to set a bulk operation to add vocabulary o categories on the fly to the uncategorised content.

An update on our Drupal conversion

Posted by yelvington on November 4, 2008 at 4:48pm

It's been awhile since I posted an update on the Morris project to build a newspaper site management system on the Drupal platform. We're moving toward a complete relaunch (and complete redesign) of Jacksonville.com, our largest newspaper site, in a couple of weeks. Some details are posted on my blog.

Major modules being used are:

CCK
Views
Panels 2
Content Recommendation Engine
Daypart (new module to be released by Morris)
FeedAPI
Image, Imagecache
Lightbox2
Nodequeue
Organic Groups
Signwriter
Webform
Buddylist
SWF tools

Messed Up? - Imported text wrapping round an image!

Posted by amax on November 4, 2008 at 12:13pm

I think I have messed up folks. Basically, I created a new content type with fields matching my XML import of news stories. However, I now have a requirement to display a nice panel image (static and exactly the same on every page) in the top right of EVERY story content i.e. with the text flowing around it on every one of these content type pages. I have over 500 pages that were imported recently. Is this possible to do, is there some sort of theming thing I can try to do so that for every one of these content type pages, it displays the image and flows the imported text around it?

ProsePoint 0.07: A Drupal-based Newspaper CMS

Posted by bengtan on November 4, 2008 at 6:51am

Hi,

Just wanted to pop my head in and let everyone know of the new release of ProsePoint (www.prosepoint.org), a CMS for publishing online newspapers and magazines.

If you look closely at ProsePoint, you'll discover it's derived from Drupal. In fact, it's a Drupal distribution bundled into a single tarball for easy download. Of course, that means there's third party code in there, but it's all in the name of making life easier for end users.

Offline node creation

Posted by AndyN1972 on October 30, 2008 at 10:37am

We are putting together a sports news site and are investigating ways of creating content/nodes offline (at an event etc) with the following workflow:

Site editors create the content item (display fields, taxonomy, body text, photos etc) locally
Hook up to internet and simply publish complete item into drupal site with one click.

Has anyone got any good pointers on this? One avenue we are looking at is using Adobe Air.

Thanks.

Help with Magazine Issue contents page

Posted by areaten-gdo on October 29, 2008 at 5:20pm

I'm having difficulty getting my head round using the node reference field and views

What I want is to have a contents page for a magazine issue with the contents displayed underneath it.

So far, I have a content type 'Issue' and content type 'Magazine article' and the magazine article has a node reference content field allowing the relevant Issue node to be selected.

But I am stuck on having the contents displayed when ever the Issue node is displayed.
Any advice on this?

I think it might be a views query but how do I have that as part of the Issue content type?

Three ways to create classified ads/business directory: reviews

Posted by nicholas_w on October 28, 2008 at 4:09pm

As far as I can tell there are three primary avenues to creating the functionality needed for classified ad or business directory websites. I'm about to test each of them so that I can figure out which is best for my purposes, so I thought I'd post here and see if anyone has any experience with these modules and can help out. When I'm finished testing them myself, I'll post the results here.

The three avenues (as far as I can tell, if there are others, please let me know) are:

tracking banner adds on newspaper site

Posted by amax on October 24, 2008 at 7:35pm

Dear All, we want to start tracking our only 3 adds on the bottom of our newspaper site (done in drupal 5) (we only have 3 adds :))

Basically, in the page.tpl.php file I have hardcoded each image as per below:

a onclick="javascript:urchinTracker('/bannerads/advertiser1/bottomLeft');" target="_blank" href="http://www.mysite.com"

For some reason though, my google analytics isnt picking any clicks up. I have clicked on the banners outside my own network on home PCs etc but still nothing in analytics which I search for content of /bannerads/

Newspaper Drupal Site from The Roanoke Times

Posted by sethgitner on October 21, 2008 at 10:42pm

Hello all,

I wanted to pass on a web site we built in drupal geared toward a story we are doing on a new $60 Million Art Museum that is opening here in Roanoke, VA next month.

Guide to the Taubman Museum of Art and Downtown Roanoke

The plan is that this special site will be updated as the area's excitement builds toward the museum opening on November 8.

Also check out the very cool Flash Interactive.

Feel free to check it out. Let us know what you think.

Thanks,

Panel Tutorial

Posted by copy on October 14, 2008 at 8:32am

Ello all,
I am looking for a good panels tutorial.
thank you.

Benefits of Drupal Forum over third party for newspaper site!

Posted by amax on October 10, 2008 at 2:09pm

Dear All,

Enter the Knight News Challenge

Posted by pachecod on October 8, 2008 at 2:23pm

Hello,

Since this group consists of people who are thinking about digital news, I would like to invite everyone to submit good ideas to this year's Knight News Challenge. All entries must be in by 11:59 p.m. on November 1, 2008, which means there are only 24 days left. You can submit your application at http://newschallenge.org/

An early preview of the InDesign Integration Kit

Posted by stdbrouw@groups... on October 7, 2008 at 11:02am

I promised I'd share some of my web-to-print and indesign-related modules by september a while ago. By now we're october so I thought I'd elaborate a bit on what exactly I'm trying to accomplish and why you might care :-)

Community Newspaper with Drupal

Posted by copy on October 5, 2008 at 4:54pm

Hello all,
I am asking a question that has been asked hundred times. I know.
But,
I am a newbie and have some experience using drupal. Like adding and enabling modules etc..

Here is the question
I want to host a community newspaper site using drupal. I have downloaded "must HAVEs" listed in this page

http://groups.drupal.org/node/5281?

I know this is a pain,
but can anybody tell me how to ....

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