journalism

Hey folks. I'm starting a local news website in my small city in Massachusetts. Has anyone out there tackled this space before? I'd love to pool some wisdom about news sites in Drupal. I'm thinking about starting a group for news & journalism. Let me know if you're interested.

Stuff I'm working with:
- News articles
- Blogging by several different contributors
- Ads, highly user-targeted
- Calendar of local events
- Forums
- Implementing canned themes, since I don't have CSS or PHP skills

Hi all, I'm happy to announce that VozMob Drupal Distro (VozMobDD) version 0.5.1 has been released. VozMobDD is Drupal customized as a widely accessible mobile blogging platform. VozMobDD has been designed to make it easy to post content to Drupal from regular mobile phones via voice calls, SMS, or MMS.

Hi all,

We recently completed several new features over at VozMob (http://vozmob.net). VozMob stands for mobile voices / voces moviles, it's mobile blogging that lets users post text, photo, video, and audio via sms, mms, and phone calls (no data plan or app download needed). You can find our full release 0.2 on github: http://code.vozmob.net.

New features that are tested and now live:

Hello from Grand Rapids!

I've been here for two weeks and already the Drupal involvement begins! I'm not actually working on the development, but our web developer is fairly new to Drupal with very few people to consult in GR; only the support forums. So we have a question based on permissions, and the context is that we're creating a website called The Rapidian that will act as an online distribution platform for citizen journalism in Grand Rapids. In this setup, we have many roles, with first-time reporter and reporter on the lower rungs and editor on the higher rungs.

So when adding content in a custom content type like a “news story,” can we hide/show certain fields based on a users role? For example, we’d like an editor role to be able to check a field “has been fact checked” but not show this to the reporter role.

So I agree for the most part with the idea that we don't necessarily need an install profile so much as a bunch of documentation on how to set-up a Drupal based IMC.

I'm not sure if this would be super helpful for the IMC's that have next to no tech related help, but at least if we had a set of default procedures and workflows we could utilize this in order to set-up a site for them without having to spend a lot of time deliberating over the best way to do something within drupal.

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}

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.

Hey,

I am curious if anyone here has used Drupal to build a site for a
magazine, and if so, what themes, modules, etc. you used in doing so.

I am new to Drupal, and my require some basic help.

Please contact me personally: dheeraj.ch...@gmail.com

Thanks,

-dx

Thursday I flew up to Michigan to see a group of Medill School of Journalism (Northwestern University) students make their final Media Management class presentation.

Each year, Rich Gordon's class undertakes an innovation project, usually in partnership with a media company. This year they did two projects -- one with a Morris newspaper, the other with Yahoo.

Hi, I am Subir Ghosh. I run Newswatch (www.newswatch.in). I am essentially a journalist, but I create my own sites too. Newswatch is based on WordPress. It was made with NucleusCMS earlier. And then I had to migrate to WordPress because of its robust category structure and of course perfect search results. I have a created a few other magazine sites for a few friends.. all using WordPress. It was a toss-up between WordPress and Drupal and I settled for the former. Primarily because of its more design flexibility, pagination possibilities, etc.