Hi!
For years we have done like most newspapers do: Developed our own strange system in PHP with all its quirks, limitations and redundant development.
We need a new CMS to help us reinvent our newspaper on the internet - and was hoping to use an open source CMS as foundation. But we are a small organization and and need some help choosing the right one.
So please: Help us choose which CMS would make a great start for developing a newspaper CMS. If you have any experience or have tried anything similiar, please let us know what you did: System, modules, plugins? How difficult was it, is architecture right for a news site etc. etc.
We have been looking at Drupal, but we're not sure if it's the one.
This is a "wish list" for all the stuff we would like to have. Any good ideas?
Thanks,
Nikolai
CORE FUNCTIONALITY:
• Articles - the newspaper is released everyday at midnight
• Photos, video, multimedia galleries
• Sections - like any newspaper: domestic, international, arts, opinion etc.
• Archive - 40 years of newspaper articles and a vital and central search
• Special reports - provisional and topical sections
• Reuse of content in different sections and on different sites
• User registration - system has to handle paying subscribers as well as freebies
• "My newspaper" - every reader should his own place on the net with all of his comments, saved articles, newsletters, feeds, and subscription info