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Our-Hometown, Inc. has entered the 2009 Knight News Challenge for its work on bringing our customers new and improved newspaper website features using the Drupal Content Management System.

The Knight News Challenge is a contest run by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, which funds projects and ideas that advance quality journalism in this digital age.

Hi Group! Since I started working on a newspaper website upgrade two years ago - I've found a lot of good advice around here. So I thought I'd make a write-up on what I've done, as well as pose a question.

My workplace, Fria Tidningar, had a setup with a publishing system called Scoop, and an automatic web export to PHPnuke which was really starting to show its age when I came here 2.5 years ago. The company then published 4 newspapers, today 8, with different premises (4 of the papers are local) - but some shared content.

NOIDA, India: The Kalkion Group has today launched the Hindi edition of Kalkion.com, the world's first multi-lingual and multi-cultural science fiction and fantasy magazine. The site was launched on the occasion of the Independence Day of India. The site has become the world's first science fiction website in Hindi.

I think it would be good to give an extra visibility to the proposed sessions in media related field for the next DrupalCon in Paris.

It's time to register http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/user

Once registered :

You can register your vote

Now you still have some time to be able to vote on them, so we can see which sessions are on the top of your lists and plan the schedule accordingly.
Get busy using your right to vote again, as this is your event!
Deadline will be Sunday, 12th July
Here is how you do it (if you don't know already):
Step 1
Go to the sessions list.
Step 2
Browse through it by filtering etc. Once you have found a topic that you want to vote for, click on the button in the upper right corner:
Step 3
Once it is green, it shows that you have voted and you can see all the sessions in My Attending Sessions in your profile.

Click again to cancel your vote.

Or you can make a session proposal to share your latest media related achievements http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/node/add/session :

Hi everyone,

We've just launched a new news-site using Drupal. http://www.theblogpaper.co.uk/. We aim to publish the first free user generated newspaper in London UK by the End of August/ Beginning of September 2009.

So the concept in a nutshell basically is that users of theblogpaper.co.uk can upload articles, photos and engage in discussions. The highest rated and most discussed content will be promoted to the printed version of the blogpaper. Our intention is basically to create a weekly review of what has been going on within the blogging community, and what the community found worthy to be printed and is read by potentially more. Our main goal is to create a platform for bloggers, citizen journalists, photographers and other "content creators" which allows them to get further exposure and maybe reach out to new readerships.

Hi!

I am glad to share with you all that we recently launched a science fiction site http://kalkion.com which runs fully on GLAMP server and is powered by Drupal. I trust this is the first science fiction site running on powerful drupal. We tested Joomla, Wordpress and many more, only Drupal came out as winner. Thanks Drupal for enabling us in achieving our dream and goal.

Hi all! I was just introduced to this group by Ken Rickard from Palantir. I posted a case study for the Saint Louis Review, a local Catholic diocesan newspaper with an audience of about 500,000 Catholics in the metro area on my website: Case Study: St. Louis Review.

The Georgetown Hoya (http://www.thehoya.com) recently made the transition to Drupal about a year ago. We're now looking to upgrade to Drupal6, but wanted to get some feedback from the development/drupal community on the progress we have made so far. Please let me know your thoughts!

Hey everyone,

Just wanted to hear your feedback on our newspaper website, The Harvard Voice, that was built entirely on Drupal. This is still a "beta" version,
with a lot of things, like our video player, yet to be finished. But we'd love to hear what you guys think about it.

Check it out here:
http://www.thehvoice.com/

Thanks!
M.

I posted a brief announcement of http://beta.cjonline.com/ to the main Drupal site's showcase forum:

http://drupal.org/node/390118

We anticipate replacing www.cjonline.com with the new site Thursday, if all goes well.

We'll need to do a more thorough writeup soon explaining what we're learning as we move all of our newspapers to Drupal.