Which CMS do they use in online journalism utopia? | Martin Stabe October 2, 2008
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : delicious links , add a commentMartin Stabe summarises key points from Making Online News, a collection of academic articles edited by Chris Paterson and David Domingo: "The article is essential reading for any newsroom manager. A CMS with poor backend usability will engender bad practices as journalists cut corners while striving for immediacy or some other ideal. The same is true of a brilliant CMS delivered with badly-executed templates that journalists can’t fix.
Never mind the cool stuff we’d all like to be trying — if the CMS makes it difficult (or is designed to discourage) the basic things we ought to be doing — like creating inline links in stories — time-pressed journalists simply won’t do it. In other words, the technology begins to determine content.
Worse, I suspect badly-designed CMS backends engender resistance to the online medium among print journalists by leading them to assume that all this digital stuff must be frightfully complicated."
