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

How to build a simple multi-contributor news site

Posted by itangalo on August 1, 2008 at 6:44pm

Hi James!
(This post is a reply to a question on how to build a simple multi-contributor news site, but I felt better posting thiswriteup as a new node.)

I did something like the thing you ask for a few months ago, when doing some hands-on web stuff with Swedish journalist students.
It would take some time and effort to explain everything I did in detail, but you could try the following list and ask more questions if you get stuck.

Drupal base - v6 or v5

Posted by dale386 on July 31, 2008 at 12:06pm

Hi there,

I am putting together a website for a college newspaper. I am set on using Drupal as my CMS, but it appears that many newspaper-related modules have not been updated for Drupal 6 -- most notably, Panels. Is there a way to use these modules on Drupal 6, or should I base my site on Drupal 5. I'm a relatively advanced developer but am new to Drupal - I apologize if I have overlooked something.

Thanks!

Image repository in web-to-print environment

Posted by otherpal on July 25, 2008 at 3:06pm

Having images stored in CMS is a great benefit that web-to-print provides for it keeps images centralized. However, image originals are big and tend to add up quickly so hosting disk space may become an issue. We came up with following options

1) Only web version of image and the name of original file are stored in CMS. The original itself is stored offline in some predefined directory. While generating export XML to be used by InDesign, CMS uses the name of original image and inDesign gets it from its offline location.

Taxonomy vs Node reference

Posted by shyamala on July 24, 2008 at 3:41pm

We are in a debate as to whether we should use taxonomy or node reference!

Our website enables selling of Products, especially for Schools and Colleges. Users can create products or purchase products on the site. The Products have some categories associated with it.
Has a tree structure, root, L1, L2,L3. Parts of the categories are repetitive.

eg. Books
-- Education
---Physics
---- Grade I
---- Grade II
---- Grade III
---Chemistry

Need some help pinpointing styling bugs for my site in IE

Posted by JayCally on July 18, 2008 at 7:24pm

I have put together a real estate site for the newspaper I am employed at. It is all done in drupal and looks great in FireFox and Safari but I'm getting some weird spacing issues in IE. I can't seem to find out what is causing this bug. Could anyone take a look at the site in FireFox with FireBug enable and give any suggestions.

The site is:
http://www.eastbayrihomes.com/

Thanks

MultiContributor News - Newbie Needs Help

Posted by jamescarvin on July 17, 2008 at 8:47pm

I am a drupal newbee and really overwhelmed at the moment. I'd like a thorough consultation with someone I can give the admin password to and show me how to accomplish my goals here. Which are …

3 Customers with more than 1000 users in production deployments needed for Gartner social software market assessment

Posted by Amazon on July 16, 2008 at 7:35pm

I am working on submitting the Drupal survey response for Gartner's latest research report. We are looking for three customers with 1000 users in a production deployment. Ideally these would be successful deployments and the customer would be willing to have a quick chat with myself to ensure we are providing the right customer reference. Good customer references are the single biggest factor in impacting report recommendations.

From the Gartner Social software market survey

We got interviews from:

Open-sourcing our site management system work

Posted by yelvington on July 14, 2008 at 9:11pm

We at Morris Communications have used Drupal for several high-profile projects beginning with Bluffton Today more than three years ago, and leading up to the recent launch of WhereTraveler.com for our visitor publication group.

Automation from 3B2 CMS

Posted by amax on July 9, 2008 at 9:10am

Hi Everyone,

How to show daily news

Posted by kalkar.prashant on July 8, 2008 at 9:15am

I want to show the news on daily basis. I tried to use the Daily module, but the module only allow one news per day. I want to show all the news posted by the users for the given date, with the calender control (like the one provided with the Daily module) and user should be able to navigate between the news day-wise with the help of that calender control.

Can anyone tell me how can I implement this functionality.

Thanks & Regards,
Prashant

Any solution to reproduce a rich layout of magazine in a flexible way ?

Posted by JBI on July 5, 2008 at 10:44am

The magazine I’m working for magazine looking to reproduce a rich layout of the paper on there website.
Each article (mixe of different asset :interview, blog post, discution, pool, article) have different layout
1 teaser node on the home page "teaser.jpg"
2 teaser node on the channel page node "teaser bis.jpg"
3 full length

There is a nice write up at http://drupal.org/nyobserver about this solution that involved creating one cck content type for the home page and an other for the channels edition

Issues With New Server Configuration

Posted by mcantelon on July 4, 2008 at 8:37pm

Hi all,

We are evaluating a new server configuration, looking at going from a single server setup to a dual server setup (web server/database).

Our existing server is a Dell PowerEdge 850 with 10K RPM drive (not sure what drive type/RAID config), 1 GB RAM, and a dual-core Pentium 3 GHz processor, 2MB cache.

The new servers are both Sun X2100 M2, 10K RPM SATA RAID 5, 4GB RAM, and a dual-core AMD Opteron 2.6 GHz processor, 1 MB cache.

Bad link for Drupal "Learning Resources"?

Posted by femrich on June 19, 2008 at 5:09am

I tried to check out the Drupal "Learning Resources" wiki page linked at the top of the Newspapers on Drupal group and was directed to a blank wiki page instead. Anyone know what's going on with this? I hope the page wasn't deleted. If so, does anyone have access to restore it?

Thanks.

New to drupal, not a programmer/developer

Posted by drupalNEW on June 17, 2008 at 12:28am

I want to start a business directory to generate revenue to improve some existing newspaper sites (please forgive me for not providing specifics on the sites themselves) and have been recommended to use drupal for not only the business directory but also content management.

The issue, I'm not a programmer or developer and I'm concerned I won't have the technical expertise to get this done.

That having been said, if I had to hire someone to develop the server, load the software, design the templates, etc and get everything running, what kind of costs would I be looking at?

Could a good-sized Drupal newspaper site run on a cloud-based infrastructure?

Posted by geoffb on June 10, 2008 at 9:15pm

We are currently looking at changing our hosting company so that we can ramp up our resources.

One of the options we looked at was Amazon's EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud). However, we backed away when our intial tests showed that transfer speed weren't very fast.

But, I was just wondering if anyone in the Newspaper on Drupal group has successfully trialled Cloud Computing and, if so, whether there were any tricks and traps if you wanted to run a good-sized Drupal newspaper site on a cloud-based infrastructure.

Cheers,

Geoff

Taxonomy

Posted by Doktor.Science on June 10, 2008 at 4:44pm

Hi. Does anyone know where I can find free (open source) taxonomies that I could use for an online newspaper?

$5000 Daylife Developer Challenge

Posted by vineet-gdo on June 5, 2008 at 8:31pm

I am very excited to announce the first Daylife Developer Challenge for building applications using the Daylife News Aggregation APIs. Folks hosting Drupal based websites on http://ecproject.org and http://comminit.com have built drupal pages/blocks/modules serving syndicated content using the Daylife APIs earlier.

The prizes are: a $3500 first prize and two $750 runner up prizes. The contest ends midnight of July 25th

How to set up a newspaper site

Posted by JayCally on May 29, 2008 at 1:11pm

I work for a newspaper publisher that produces 9 weekly newspapers. I'm looking into using Drupal as a CMS for our web products. I read Building powerful and robust websites with Drupal 6 which helped me to understand how drupal works and to set up a site. I really like how the New York Observer is laid out and could use some help on setting up a newspaper site.

Below is a list of what I'd like to do and would really appreciate any pointers or suggestion you may have.

Best e-mail and SMS subscription modules?

Posted by ken hawkins on May 28, 2008 at 7:27pm

Hi all. We're in the final stages of developing TheDigitel.com, a local news site, and I'm trying to decide on the best avenue to integrate e-mail and SMS subscriptions. Before I go installing a bunch on the test server, I thought I'd ask for your thoughts.

Ideally, we want to offer people the ability to subscribe to a daily or weekly digest (perhaps based of our RSS feed), or to subscribe to a particular topic (i.e. e-mail me when there's a new story tagged with "road development") or to say SMS me when there's a new top story or story tagged with "wreck".

Scholarships available for programmers to spend year studying journalism

Posted by mlncn on May 27, 2008 at 3:48am

A little off-topic, but it seems to me there could be a nice fit with this initiative– code tools for journalists while learning more about being a journalist: Still seeking coders interested in journalism.

^{benjamin, Agaric Design Collective}

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