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.

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

Just noticed automated comment preview on the newspaper group...

Posted by femrich on March 19, 2008 at 9:14am

I just noticed that groups.drupal.org has enabled an automatic preview for comments. Now a window is generated automatically to present a preview of a poster's comment, eliminating the need to click the preview button in order to see the comment.

I kinda like this feature. Does anyone know what module does this? And whether it could also be applied to content types, rather than just comments? And whether there are irritating side-effects to doing this?

Web Publication System for Newspapers

Posted by Mike Wacker on March 19, 2008 at 4:46am

A copy of the official proposal can be found at http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/mew66/gsoc.pdf.

Hello everybody,

I'm Mike Wacker, Assistant Web Editor for The Cornell Daily Sun. Over the past school year, The Sun has used a web publication system, codenamed MustRun, to manage our content online from when the story is assigned to when the story is finished.

Sphinxsearch integration

Posted by johsw@drupal.org on March 14, 2008 at 2:41pm

Following Yelvington I'm crossposting this to the following groups: SOC2008, Knight Foundation, Newspapers on Drupal and Search

One thing that would be really cool, is a module integrating http://www.sphinxsearch.com/ and Drupal. Our experience is that core search doesn't play nice when you have alot of nodes (we have 150.000+). Indexing simply kills the server.

So instead we use Sphinx. It's REALLY fast, both when searching and when indexing. BUT everytime we alter our content-types we have to manually reconfigure the sphinx configuration. This is why I propose this as a module for the SOC08 - a module that integrates Sphinxsearch and Drupal

Global News Content Module - Stories, Photos, Quotes, Connections

Posted by vineet-gdo on March 14, 2008 at 3:24am

Moved to official ideas list: http://drupal.org/node/237907

I want to propose a project for building a module that pulls news content from a global news service called Daylife (http://daylife.com)

Daylife is a global news aggregation service that offers an Open API platform called DayPI (http://developer.daylife.com) for any developer, blogger, news service to pull stories and photos about any topic in the world. The API returns data in XML, JSON and PHP serialized formats. You can read the Daylife About page at http://www.daylife.com/page/about to learn more about the company. All platform documentation is on http://developer.daylife.com/docs

NITF/Atom/NewsML extensions for FeedAPI

Posted by yelvington on March 13, 2008 at 7:13pm

Status: Added to official ideas list http://drupal.org/node/234652

I'm crossposting this to the following groups, all of which have a dog in this hunt: SOC2008, Knight Foundation, Newspapers on Drupal, RSS & Aggregation.

News agencies, "legacy" newsroom management system implementors, publishers and archiving companies all support an XML standard called News Industry Text Format (NITF), developed by the International Press Telecommunications Council.

We need a robust, broadly supported common NITF feed handler that works with the Drupal FeedAPI framework, ultimately enabling loading of NITF data into CCK nodes with configurable entity mapping. This feed handler should expose its own API so that additional handlers can be added to process NewsML (primarily championed by Reuters) and Atom wrappers (used by the Associated Press in AP Exchange).

Nexpo Meetup, anyone?

Posted by agentrickard on March 12, 2008 at 8:24pm

For those who don't know, Nexpo is a gigantic trade show put on by the Newspaper Association of America every year. Over at my day job, I'm a member of the NAA, and this interview was with the NAA monthly trade magazine.

Menu for a news website

Posted by lordlex on March 10, 2008 at 1:36pm

Hello!

I already have a news website built on Drupal, but now o work on another news website and at this point i have a problem...
What i need is to display a tree of terms like this:
News
--Industry
--Technology
X
--YY
--ZZ...
"News" and "X" are terms in a vocabulary. "Industry" and "Technology" are therms in same vocabulary but the have as parent the "News" term.
When i go to /news (the path alias of the "News" term) i want there to be list of all sub-terms of this term.
Another posibility will be to display teasers of the nodes in "Industry" and "Technology".

DrupalCON summary and next steps

Posted by agentrickard on March 7, 2008 at 6:18pm

[This is a cross-post from my blog.]

We had a very successful BoF on Wednesday. The goal was to discusss how the Drupal community would manage our relationship with the Knight Foundation.

For those who were not at DrupalCON, here are the basics:

-- The Knight Foundation (KF) provides funding for open-source development, products and innovations that are in line with their core goal: improving communities through the free exchange of news and information.

Knight Foundation BoF at DrupalCon - Wednesday 3:30

Posted by chipk on March 5, 2008 at 3:38am

To all News folk at DrupalCon this week - just noticed the DrupalCon BoF event posting below and thought I'd post here to raise visibility. I didn't get a chance to meet others at Lucky's yesterday (raucous fun, but not too conducive to conversation!). Come on by if you're interested in Knight or just want to chat over Drupal.

http://groups.drupal.org/node/9383

Chip Kaye

Nikolai Thyssen featured in Journalism.co.uk story

Posted by yelvington on February 29, 2008 at 8:38pm

Kristine Lowe interviews Nikolai Thyssen about Danish news sites using Drupal for Journalism.co.uk, the British journalism website.

“The price of Drupal is an in-house developer. You get some good building blocks, but you have to think of Drupal as a framework rather than as plug and play: you have to discover everything for yourself,” said Nikolai Thyssen, head of new media for Information.dk.

College newspapers and Drupal

Posted by greglinch@drupal.org on February 26, 2008 at 4:00am

This thread is for colleges/universities who currently use or are planning to use Drupal.

My name is Greg Linch and I'm the editor of The Miami Hurricane at the University of Miami (Florida, USA).We're in the early stages of building our site.

To kick off the conversation, here are some blogs and posts discussing our redesign:

www.greglinch.com
http://www.greglinch.com/2008/01/video-themiamihurricanecom-redesign.html

www.willwooten.blogspot.com
http://willwooten.blogspot.com/2008/02/where-were-starting-and-where-wer...

Taxonomy menu

Posted by gadehans on February 21, 2008 at 8:51pm

Using taxonomy is a great way to organize your content and it seems that most newspapers on Drupal uses this method. But how do you make autogenerated menus from category-terms with pretty urls in a generel manner?

The module "Taxonomy menu" generates menus from category-terms but leaves you with ugly urls of the form: http://thisNewspaper/taxonomy/term/3, which can't be very search engine friendly.

Using views and making every menu-item by hand (pointing them to a view) gets you pretty urls, but is a fairly complicated way of making menus.

OpenCalais from Reuters

Posted by kpaul on February 11, 2008 at 4:03am

Just wanted to throw a link to this out there to see what people thought and try to find someone to hook Drupal up to their API. ;)

http://www.opencalais.com/Overview

http://www.opencalais.com/Developers

I haven't read up on it a lot yet myself...

K. Paul Mallasch - Publisher
http://www.kpaulmedia.com

US patent reform and open source: Who is the best candidate for the OS community?

Posted by todd nienkerk on February 7, 2008 at 6:07pm

My friend whurley has launched an online poll to bring open source to the attention of politicians -- specifically, the presidential candidates. He, like many of us, is troubled by the recent calls for patent reform put forth by larger companies that may wind up blocking innovation and threatening open source-oriented companies and contractors.

You can view the poll here and vote for which candidate you believe is best for the open source community. (Don't worry: "None of them" is an option!)

Travel website for French daily newspaper voyages.liberation.fr

Posted by JBI on February 7, 2008 at 9:57am

We are going to launch a new travel website.
http://voyages.liberation.fr
Let us know if you see any bugs.

It's the first stage of the project and we are looking to increase interaction with the readers. Do you have any User Generated Content suggestions?
We were thinking of uploading photos, posting stories and blogs, sharing tips and advice...
Please feel free to share your views below.

Thanks

Best approach to menus on a weekly paper?

Posted by ryanmills on February 6, 2008 at 7:08pm

I'm halfway threw setting up a newspaper site and I think I have everything figured out except the best way to approach the menu. Given its a weekly newspaper updating the menu by hand would be rough given the 50+ sections of the paper that would need to change. My first idea was to use views to limit the node with a single "checkbox" value then just show that View. But thats really going to screw with Google and I would rather use the Scheduler module anyway. Is there a way to setup my menus to auto update to the newest published article?

-RM

Article editing screen advice needed

Posted by ano1 on February 4, 2008 at 10:09pm

Hello All

I am working with an online youth media publication that is looking to upgrade their website/e-publication and I am looking to upgrade/switch them to Drupal. I need advice on the article adding, node add/edit screen and functionality.

Schamper: our student newspaper on Drupal

Posted by stdbrouw@groups... on January 30, 2008 at 5:21pm

We've recently redesigned our website, so I took the time to do a small writeup and look back on our switch to Drupal a while ago. Hope you enjoy the read.

Making the transit from Textpattern to Drupal

DrupalCon Business Presentations Needed!

Posted by LizaK on January 29, 2008 at 7:36pm

Hi all!

We are looking for speakers for the upcoming DrupalCon in Boston. Since you are subscribed to the Newspapers group, you might be especially interested in the "Business and Marketing" track (see http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/business-and-marketing-track-descriptions ).

This track covers the following topics:

The Drupal ecosystem
Businesses learning to use Drupal
Case studies
Showcases: NPO, Education, News, Media, Government, Healthcare

Seattle Times NWSource.com Drupal Presentation

Posted by lucidvein on January 26, 2008 at 4:16am

Only local images are allowed. The Seattle Drupal User Group is happy to have participated in a presentation by The Seattle Times NWSource.com staff demonstrating their conversion to the Drupal content management framework. Please watch the video and peruse the notes from this excellent talk in which NWSource.com producers and engineers detail their experience with Drupal and the challenges they faced.

http://seadug.org/nwsource-drupal-presentation

Special thanks to The Seattle Times and staff for hosting and and giving this informative presentation. We'd also like to thank the SeaDUG community who came out for the event. Please join us again in the future for more Drupal events in the Northwest!

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