Newspapers on Drupal

At http://www.gazettenet.com we have a website that is Drupal-based. Our editorial system is Saxotech. I am interested in making contacts with other newspaper people who are also working with Saxotech on the back end and Drupal on the front end.

Hey guys,

I'm the editor of a Harvard weekly called The Voice. Our online edition is based on Drupal, check it out at www.theHvoice.com
Anyhow, I was wondering if anyone has any idea how to connect InCopy with Drupal - in other words, to export XML to Drupal,
and use Drupal as a true newsroom CMS?

Best,
M.

I'm using drupal 6 with CCK and Views2 installed (and looking forward to Panels when its in shape for a production site).

I got an idea for managing "letters" on the site, partly inspired by some documentation on using Node Comment and Five Star to create a "review" content type (http://drupal.org/node/234681). (I don't want to go this route, however, because I don't want to disable core comments, as node comment seems to require, and I also want to use Node Queue to create a list of featured letters, and I don't think Node Queue supports comments with core comment module.)

I'm currently designing a small college newspaper site using Drupal 6. For now, it is a test site running on a shared hosting system (opensourcehost). I also run several Drupal 5 sites related to my teaching on the same account, and until now the account has managed to handle the load, which I would describe as light usage except during classes, when I can have 25 users at a time.

Looking for a way to gracefully implement an auto-flipping display box of stories. You know, one story for five seconds, then story 2, the story 3, and back to story 1. Something like what you see here. It needn't actually display tabs, only a back and forwards UI. I'd prefer it not to have tabs, in fact.

Has anyone done this? What have you used?

I know there's magic tabs, which seems like it could very well do the job. Just thought I'd seek some advice before diving in.

Hello,

I'd like to build a blog network with Drupal. Is there any module that complishes a simple workflow like this:
- contributors blog articles in their blog;
- anyone can comment, author can edit, (editor may have some private discussion about the article);
- editor select an article and display it on homepage, author can no longer edit this post.

If nothing like that exists, is there any combination to do that easily ?

Thanks in advance.

Can anybody tell me the best themes to use for newspapers? I just created my first newspaper site at http://www.postobserver.com but I have issues with the left column loading in IE7 and IE6.

What is the best theme for newspapers?

Hi,

Just wanted to announce the availability of the first (alpha) release of ProsePoint, a newspaper content management system.

Some things to note:

ProsePoint is a distribution built on top of Drupal 6.

It is currently alpha software and this is the first release. Hence, there are most likely all sorts of bugs and design inefficiencies. Please be welcome to try it, but use at your own risk.

It has the most customisation and add-on functionality of any distribution that I know of. The eventual aim is to have everything ready to go out of the box. No more searching for extra modules or testing of combinations of modules. Just install and go!

I'm a latecomer to the Panels party. We've been able to use blocks and regions to accommodate our layout needs for our community websites. But as we work on a project to launch two large newspapers on Drupal later this year, we're looking for ways to enable editors to create and manage special page layouts on the fly, as the changing news demands.

That led to Panels, and after spending some time with Panels 2, I'm blown away.

Here's how Panels solves the problem.