journalism

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.

EastBay Media is looking for local, experienced Drupalers to assist in client site development under a fixed contract. The site will have a strong user collaboration component. Experience with using OG, Workflow, Actions, Views, etc. to put nodes through the wringer before publication is required. Experience with mapping is helpful, too.

The project is on a short-ish timeframe, so we could use some extra hands. Those hands should be able to communicate well and work independently.

Interested parties can contact us at drupaljob@eastbaymedia.com.

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.

This is not a Drupal job per se, but all of the New America Foundation's sites are Drupal-based, so a "power user" who's familiar with and interested in the Drupal community would be ideal. Details below, and at http://www.newamerica.net/about/employment_opportunities/6956

Managing Editor, NewAmerica.net

The New America Foundation is seeking a managing editor for NewAmerica.net to help improve and expand our online presence. The ideal candidate will have a love of both journalism and technology, and be keenly interested in a wide range of public policy.

I have a client with a great Drupal project at hand, and I am unable to work on it for them.

The Drupal site relates to journalism, and will likely be structured in a similar way to many journalism websites.

In addition, there will be a decent amount of taxonomy, views, CCK, and tpl.php work as the client wants to have nodes browsable by various criteria.

You'll come in early into the project, and so your insights will assist as the specifications are written. I will also offer some of my ideas generated from early brainstorming sessions.

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

Ifra, the international technical organization for newspapers, is sponsoring a three-day summit/workshop on citizen media 2-4 July at the Park Royal Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia. The official description follows:

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.