by: Rakiesha Chase
February 13th, 2012
What a week for us here at Digital Services. We launched our 50th station and our first site using our new Layout Engine tool.
Consider WKAR the cherry on top of our Core Publisher sundae, as they are our newest Core Publisher station site!
WKAR provides news and music for the Michigan area. You can visit them at Michigan State University, or at http://wkar.org.
by: Rakiesha Chase
February 10th, 2012
WSIU is our newest Core Publisher station. This is a pretty special site launch, because WSIU is the first station to go live using our new Layout Engine. You’ll notice that we’ve added some new blocks and tools to the homepage to help stations serve their listeners and web visitors better.
You can see WSIU’s treatment of the Layout Engine at http://news.wsiu.org. We’d love to hear your feedback!
by: Rakiesha Chase
February 10th, 2012
This is a big week for us, because we are celebrating the launch of our fiftieth site. WESM is our Golden station!
WESM is based on the campus of University of Maryland, Eastern Shore. Providing “Jazz, blues and so much more”, they can be found at http://wesm913.org.
Core Publisher – the family that grows and learns together, is awesome together!
by: Rakiesha Chase
February 9th, 2012
WWNO, based at the University of New Orleans, recently launched their new Core Publisher site at http://wwno.org.
Welcome to the Core Publisher family, WWNO!
by: Rakiesha Chase
February 9th, 2012Hello Core Publishers!
We are happy to announce two new Core Publisher stations. We’ve been quite the busy bees recently.
You can visit WKU Public Radio, based out of Western Kentucky University, at http://wkyufm.org.
Across the map, but only a few clicks away, you can check out Northwest Public Radio (NWPR)’s new Core Publisher site at http://www.nwpr.org!
by: Rakiesha Chase
February 9th, 2012
KIOS‘s tagline is “News, Jazz and so much More”. I wonder if that “so much more” refers to their brand new Core Publisher site?
You can check it out at http://www.kios.org.
by: Rakiesha Chase
February 8th, 2012
We are excited to welcome Tri States Public Radio, also known as WIUM/WIUW, to the Core Publisher family. Providing NPR news and music for western Illinois and parts of Iowa and Missouri, you can visit them (and their gorgeous rotating masthead images) at http://www.tristatesradio.com.
by: Rakiesha Chase
February 8th, 2012
The term “Space Coast” used to make me think of Space Ghost and Star Trek. Now, it will make me think of new Core Publisher station WFIT – Public Radio for the Space Coast!
You can visit WFIT at http://www.wfit.org!
by: Erin Teare Martin
February 1st, 2012Dear Core Publishers,
And here is what we did this sprint (*Code-Name Brian).
Drupal Update
On Sunday night we updated Core Publisher to the most recent version of Drupal, 7.10. This update improves site performance and security, and fixes some bugs. That work was an “all hands on deck” kind of project that occupied developers’ time for most of the sprint.
Audio Direct to CDN
All sites are now configured to upload audio direct to CDN (yay!) and all newly installed sites will upload audio this way by default. Also, since audio is not being processed through the API, we took all audio processing out of the ingest module.
River Data
Our analyst took a look at how users are interacting with the river-style homepage, to inform us on how various river features are faring. More on that later.
Layout Engine Preview
by: Erin Teare Martin
January 20th, 2012Outline below of new features and fixes we pushed Wednesday evening. If you have questions about any of these items, please contact your client services manager.
The feature is flexible and has been created to provide newsrooms control on presenting manually curated content without worrying about time stamps.
You will be able to feature one or three stories with images, slugs and headlines. From highlighting different top stories or focusing on a big story with multiple angles, the versatility with this feature is exciting.
Contact your client services manager to be trained on managing this feature.