newspapers

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

Hello all,

I wanted to introduce myself, and our now-powered-by-Drupal sites, PilotOnline.com and HamptonRoads.com. I'm Jeff Anderson, and I work as the product development manager for the interactive division of The Virginian-Pilot newspaper based in Norfolk, Virginia. The Pilot is a top 50/60 U.S. daily newspaper by circulation size, and PilotOnline.com was one of the first newspaper websites to go online in the early 1990s. Along with its sister site HamptonRoads.com, a local portal focused on entertainment, community and local guides, we recently ranked No. 6 in the U.S. in terms of the percentage of users in a local market who use a particular locally-focused site. On December 10, we re-launched both sites on a customized Drupal 5.x platform.

FYI: The 'Drupal and the future of news' panel discussion will be on Thursday, 20-SEP.

We still have room for panelists; so if you're interested, let me know.

http://barcelona2007.drupalcon.org/node/423

The magazine I'm web editor for is planning on rebuilding the web site. Main candidate has been Drupal, but yesterday DotNetNuke was suggested as an alternative. (DNN was said to have all/many of the features we were looking for right out of the box.)

I've been trying to find useful comparisons between DNN and Drupal, but so far only with modest success. (For example, opensourcecms.com doesn't have DNN, and cmsmatrix.org mainly lists a number of labels which are difficult to understand and not always relevant.)

Rich Gordon's blog item for the Readership Institute discusses a Medill School of Journalism project conducted in partnership with Yahoo and a Chicago filmmaker group. It quotes liberally from Robert Putnam, who was an inspiration for much of what we've done at BlufftonToday.com, and includes a nod to Drupal:

Can we get a list going of the newspapers using Drupal for all or part of their Web presence?

As promised, here's a brief description on how we plan to use Drupal to fit our needs at the Swedish popular science magazine Forskning & Framsteg.
Since we're not planning on lauching the site for some months, some things will of course change.

• The site is used to publish articles already written, so we'll only have a few users with publishing permission (site admin, editors and one or two semi-admins). The exception is blogs written by scientists, who will share a blogger user role.

Three things have conspired recently to make me revive this concept, which I haven't worked on for a few months.

1) Lisa asked What would you do with [grant] money?

2) Then she mentioned the Tearsheet idea to Amy Gahran of the Poynter Institute. (Who previously published an interview with NoD member and Knight recipient Benjamin Melançon).

Hello, fellow Newspapers On Drupal group members, and thanks to Ken for the introduction. As he mentioned, Placeblogger, a Drupal based site I worked on -- with a LOT of help from Drupal shop Bryght -- won some Phase 2 funding from the John S and James L. Knight Foundation, which gives grants to organizations and projects that advance journalism.

The interesting thing about this funding:

1. What gets created with the funding must go into the public domain.
2. The goal of the foundation is to get tools into the hands of newspapers.

I think that's pretty exciting!

For my project, the fact that I'm on Drupal helps me meet both these goals. The project hasn't been completely nailed down yet, but it's likely that much of the funding will go towards creating Drupal modules -- and then using Placeblogger, the site, as a sort of proof-of-concept. I suspect that we'll spend a lot of time on location and Aggregator2, but at this moment we're not tied down to anything.

So help me do some thinking: if you had a little money to fund Drupal module development to aid newspapers, what would you tackle?

I would really like members of this group to consider themselves informal advisers to this project, and to benefit from it directly.

After Nikolai started the group, he added Steve Yelvington and I as moderators, so we get to see all the applications.

As Kevin noted below two Drupal-based projects received Knight foundation grants. One of those recipients, Lisa Williams just joined our little group. Lisa does great things with http://www.placeblogger.com/. Welcome to her and all the new members.