Newspapers on Drupal

Hello,

In a newspaper website, there is a lot of pictures uploaded.

So the question is quite simple :) : how do you manage to name all of your pictures/images or the way you organise them so you can find them easily later. Or you dont care about that and you just upload them ?

Or is there an automatic renaming module (dont know if there is one) and you just add a description and a few keywords and hope to find it back when you need it.

Thanks for sharing your experience about this matter.

Kieran Lal of Acquia put together a slideshow of 50 newspapers and magazines using Drupal - it's great to see how many news organizations that have adapted Drupal as a framework.

You can watch it here:
http://vimeo.com/979664

And read more about it here:
http://acquia.com/blog/kieran/50-drupal-newspaper-and-magazine-showcase-...

The Public Press www.public-press.org is a concept for the next-generation daily newspaper. We're organizing a group of journalists, technologist and nonprofit managers to organize a new newsroom for the San Francisco Bay Area that would produce a Web site, daily print newspaper and collaborations with nonprofit news-gathering organizations locally and nationally. We've built a simple Drupal 6 site that we will be growing in the coming weeks and months, and we plan to start publishing on the Web using this platform.

Folks -

Wondering if there is/are any modules that integrate events (think classic community-calendar stuff) with places (think of directories of restaurants, nightclubs, parks, other places where those events might take place).

A "big iron" / proprietary CMS example are the sites being launched by my corporate masters and Gannett: Metromix New York Metromix Denver .

What are some examples of similar event/place driven sites that use one or more Drupal modules?

cheers,

-tgd

Tom Davidson
Tribune Interactive

Hi everyone

I work for the University of Sheffield's Department of Journalism Studies as IT Officer. For the second year running I've developed a convergence website. This year using Drupal.

We run postgraduate courses in print, broadcast, web and magazine journalism and for the past two years have added a convergent element to the courses, as we understand (as does the rest of the journalism education community) the importance giving students a relevant and broad understanding of new media within journalism.

Clarification posted. Sorry.

An FYI. The finalists list of projects under final consideration for the Knight News Challenge were announced today. This list does not include the 17 winners, to be announced in May. Of the 29 projects, 5 were Drupal-related. Drupal projects include:

• Aaron Presnall -- Mapping Local News – Building the Virtual Model of a Local Community
  http://www.newschallenge.org/top_proposals/06.html

• Oiwan Lam -- Chinese-language platform for community journalism
  http://www.newschallenge.org/top_proposals/17.html

As I have worked with different content management and middleware solutions, one problem I have encountered numerous times, and that I think needs a better solution in drupal, is import and export of data and provision of web services. I think it would be good for drupal to create an import/export framework that would allow drupal developers to make re-usable, sharable import and export modules by implementing PHP objects to a few commmon interfaces and then adding their new import/export type into a central, common import/export module.

This is especially relevant for modern corporate newspapers that need to integrate content from different legacy systems, produce that content, then send it off to a number of different web publishing systems, and then also face the prospect of their systems changing if they are bought or sold. The framework as outlined in the design below could also be a means of implementing REST services (SOAP or XML-RPC would probably require another layer on top of this, though you probably could do it in this framework).