This is a place for people working at newspapers running on - or planning to run on - Drupal to share ideas, problems and solutions.
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The Open Source Newspaper
What can Drupal do for my newspaper?
Media sites using Drupal
Modules for Newspapers
Learning resources
Howdy
My name is Gus Austin. I'm a musician, self-taught web designer/developer, and relative newbie to Drupal.
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Introduction
Hi, I'm Lisa Smith, online manager for BlufftonToday.com. I've been taking care of Steve's pet project since this summer when I joined the newspaper world for the first time. Before joining the staff here, I was a freelance web designer/developer.
Bluffton Today is a unique paper in many respects - we are a free tabloid-format paper distributed daily to every household in our town. Our daily circulation is 17,500. The community at BlufftonToday.com is vibrant and outspoken and has taken ownership of both the print product and the web site with amazing fervor.
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Hi! By day, I run the community efforts at Network World, a trade publication for people who run computer networks in large organizations (in terms of circulation, content and staffing, we're probably the equivalent of a mid-sized daily paper). One of our most recent efforts was to try to integrate Drupal with our non-Drupal articles, so readers could immediately start discussions on those articles. It proved an interesting challenge - and an education in Drupal theming and authentication.
By night, I run Universal Hub, a sort of community-journalism site for the Boston area (the name is a bad pun on one of Boston's nicknames).
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Introductions
I'm also part of the Morris Communications/Morris Digital Works burgeoning global empire. When I'm actually in the office, I'm just around the corner from Ken. I was a print journalist for decades in Illinois, Missouri and Minnesota before becoming the founding editor of Star Tribune Online (now startribune.com) in Minneapolis in the pre-Web era. I was executive editor of the nationwide Cox Interactive Media network before moving to Augusta and becoming a corporate toadie. BlufftonToday.com is my special baby.
I, too, am not a geek. :-) I taught myself C in the 1990s and PHP around the turn of the century. I've been running Linux since kernel 0.96. Once upon a time I recompiled the kernel with every alpha release, but I've gotten over that.
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Introductions
Hello, I'm Ken Rickard, and I work for Morris DigitalWorks (MDW) in Augusta, Georgia (USA, home of the Masters golf tournament and the late James Brown).
MDW is a division of Morris Communications, which owns daily newspapers, radio stations, and travel publications in the US and Europe.
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Welcome
Hi,
My name is Nikolai Thyssen, I work at a danish newspaper, Dagbladet Information. We're one of the five national newspaper in Denmark - the smaller (and brighter!) of them. We were founded during WWII as an illegal paper and became a daily om May 5th 1945 - liberation day.
I set up this group to bring together people and experiences. The idea and the hope is that this could become a place for newspaper running on (or planning to run on) Drupal to share ideas, problems and solutions. And who knows were it might go?
When you join the group, it would be great if you introduced yourself and the project you work on. And please spread word so we can gather as much experience and innovation as possible.
About myself: I have a masters in comparative literature of all things, I'm the editor for our media section and have for last nine months been leading our online team as well. Our lead developer Johannes Wehner have also joined the group as well as our interaction designer, Jens Christroffersen. We're now moving our news site (information.dk) to Drupal. As a test case we recently moved our blogs (luftskibet.information.dk) to Drupal and are now building an event calendar as a last test before the big move.
All the best.
Nikolai
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