journalism

I've made test installations of Drupal before and, frankly, found its philosophies and implementation confusing, unfriendly and unnecessarily techy (concepts not explained in English). The prospect of editing themes and tinkering to achieve custom results seemed daunting.

Now I see this group, I'd like to ask your views on using Drupal to run an online news(paper) for journalism school students. That is, something with which undergrads can be introduced to and would practice the fundamentals of online journalism, from story publishing to blogging.