Core Publisher Release Notes, January 18, 2012

by: Erin Teare Martin

January 20th, 2012
Hello Core Publishers,

Outline 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.

NEW FEATURE – Lead Stories Block
This new feature allows your editorial team to prioritize important stories at the top of the home page. The lead stories block feature is available on all homepage styles and versions.

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.

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Starting the year off with a bang!

by: Rakiesha Chase

January 17th, 2012

Here at Digital Services, we are very excited for the 2012 and all of the wonderful things that we have in store for our clients.

We’re happy to announce our three newest Core Publisher stations (you can call them our “New Years Babies”) – WFSU News, WMRA and UPR!

WFSU has been providing public radio from Florida State University for over fifty years. You can visit their News page at http://news.wfsu.org/

WMRA, broadcasting from Harrisburg, VA, is “Your Source for NPR News & NPR Talk”. They also provide Classical, Jazz and Folk music programs over at WEMC. Check them out at http://www.wmra.org/.

UPR is “Utah’s favorite Public Radio” station. They also have one of my favorite logos! Visit them at http://www.upr.org/.

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Core Publisher Release Notes, 1/6/12

by: Erin Teare Martin

January 12th, 2012
Hello Fellow Core Publishers,

Worth noting that due to the (practically) weekly elections through June, we will be doing code pushes on Wednesday night, so you will see a shift in feature updates and sprint demo invites.

A fully immersive music mulitimedia content tool from NPR is now natively available in Core Publisher. There are a number of channels available today: Live in Concert, Village Vanguard, Tiny Desks, more; and each channel includes many archived and upcoming concerts. We are piloting the use of this content type with a handful of stations to ensure we build a feature set that meets stations’ and end user needs. We will communicate when it becomes available for everyone.

More playlist data is now available in Core Publisher. Basically any data you manually enter into Composer will show up on your Core Publisher playlists.

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Season’s Greetings from your Station Relations Team!

by: Rakiesha Chase

December 23rd, 2011

Happy Holidays, Core Publishers!

A few pre-holiday notes:

Our offices are closed on Monday, December 26, 2011 for the holiday. We will return bright and early on Tuesday, December 27th.

Also, there will be no Core Publisher training on Thursday, December 29, 2011. The team will return in the new year with a 2012 training schedule, which we will send out via email soon!

If you have any questions over the holiday, feel free to send an email to cphelp@ds.npr.org! You can also visit our Digital Services support page at http://info.ds.npr.org/support.html for more information.

Again, we wish you all a merry one!

–Annie, Steve, Rakiesha, Sara and Janeen

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KERA – Walking in a Core Publisher wonderland!

by: Rakiesha Chase

December 22nd, 2011

KERA, providing news for North Texas, is our newest Core Publisher station! You can check out their news site at http://keranews.org.

Congratulations, KERA, for 50 years of great programming. We are excited to be a part of your bright future!

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Core Publisher Release Notes, 12/20/11

by: Erin Teare Martin

December 21st, 2011

Hello Core Publishers,

Due to the large number of stations that will be onboarding to CP in the new year, the CP development team worked updating and improving site configurations on install.

 

Permissions

To that end we added some permissions to the install. Many already exist on install; we are simply adding to the list with the items below. 

  • Person, page, program: Editor, Station Admins, and NPR Admins now have all permissions for these content types.
  • NPR story (retrieving stories from the API) and quickstats (editing which stories are in the most active stories block: Editor, Station Admins, and NPR Admins now all have access
  • Layout Engine: On install, only station admins and NPR admins will have permission to access the layout engine. That can be adjusted at the station site level.
  • All media permissions: NPR Admins now have access.

 

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Presenting Red River [of News] Radio

by: Rakiesha Chase

December 21st, 2011

Red River Radio’s tagline is “Great Music, In-depth News and More”. Could that “More” refer to their brand new Core Publisher site, at http://www.redriverradio.org? Maybe!

Located in Shreveport, LA and providing NPR news and music across the south, Red River Radio is the newest member of our Core Publisher family.

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KWIT & WNCW – It’s beginning to look a lot like Core Publisher!

by: Rakiesha Chase

December 20th, 2011

So far this week, we’ve celebrated the launch of two new station sites for KWIT and WNCW.

KWIT/KOJI, located in Sioux City and Okoboji respectively, is known as “The Intelligent Alternative”. Make the smart choice to visit them at http://kwit.org.

WNCW, providing Listener-Powered Radio across North Carolina, has made their new home at http://wncw.org!

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WNKU is rocking Core Publisher

by: Rakiesha Chase

December 17th, 2011

Happy Core Publisher Day, WNKU aka “Public Radio That Rocks!” Check out our newest Core Publisher station, located in Northern Kentucky and online at www.wnku.org.

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Now introducing…KCUR!

by: Rakiesha Chase

December 16th, 2011

Missouri was formerly known as “Where Rivers Run”. As of today, they change their slogan to “Where News Rivers Flow”. Yesterday, our team launched our newest Core Publisher station site for KCUR: Kansas City Public Media, located in Kansas City, MO! You can visit them at http://www.kcur.org.

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