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.
by: Rakiesha Chase
January 17th, 2012Here 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/.
by: Erin Teare Martin
January 12th, 2012Worth 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.
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
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!