{"id":984,"date":"2009-11-06T01:13:49","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T05:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2009.newyork.wordcamp.org\/?p=984"},"modified":"2009-11-09T15:17:04","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T19:17:04","slug":"trueslant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyork.wordcamp.org\/2009\/trueslant\/","title":{"rendered":"Managing Flow in the New Newsroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: 5px;\" title=\"Steve McNally\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gravatar.com\/avatar\/406d78d5a360ae75e29fbe461c64c7d0?s=100\" alt=\"Photo of Steve McNally\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve McNally<\/p><\/div>\n<p>With TrueSlant.com, we set out to build a new newsroom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/trueslant.com\/about-trueslant\/\" target=\"_blank\">Our team brings a mix<\/a> of newspaper, magazine, television and book publishing to the table in addition to collective decades of online experience. A shared driver in building True\/Slant is our wish to bring some of the best-practices learned working in those media to the immediacy and community of blogging.<\/p>\n<p>The Editorial team recruits Contributors with a vision of the news &#8211; a Slant.\u00a0 These <a href=\"http:\/\/trueslant.com\/contributor-index\/\" target=\"_blank\">credible and knowledgeable Contributors<\/a> &#8211; hundreds of journalists, authors, professionals and academics with topic-specific expertise &#8211; blog under their own names, are working to build their own brands, and are trusted to make their own editorial decisions. Editors then curate the stream of stories coming through: slotting them in where they fit best, featuring the larger trends, and promoting stories across and outside of TrueSlant.com. Our Founder &amp; CEO <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nieman.harvard.edu\/reportsitem.aspx?id=101890\" target=\"_blank\">Lewis DVorkin calls this &#8220;Editing Talent&#8221;<\/a> rather than Content.<\/p>\n<p>Building on WordPress MU gave us simple, powerful tools for Contributors; extending MU helps us provide frictionless publishing and promotion across a network of quality content, helps community members find what&#8217;s relevant, helps our Contributors build audience, and helps our Editors create a lively site with minimal effort.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll cover the enhancements and curation tools that help keep TrueSlant.com a vibrant, growing network with a limited editorial staff. We&#8217;ll discuss the thinking and technology behind the Content Management methodologies and tools in use.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll walk through the ways Editors manage content flow to create the home page, Topics, and promotional opportunities throughout and the site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With TrueSlant.com, we set out to build a new newsroom. Our team brings a mix of newspaper, magazine, television and book publishing to the table in addition to collective decades of online experience. A shared driver in building True\/Slant is our wish to bring some of the best-practices learned working in those media to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1197129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[235,233,418478,236,234],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-topics","tag-editorial","tag-journalism","tag-news","tag-trueslant","tag-workflow"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyork.wordcamp.org\/2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyork.wordcamp.org\/2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyork.wordcamp.org\/2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyork.wordcamp.org\/2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1197129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyork.wordcamp.org\/2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/newyork.wordcamp.org\/2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1086,"href":"https:\/\/newyork.wordcamp.org\/2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions\/1086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyork.wordcamp.org\/2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyork.wordcamp.org\/2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyork.wordcamp.org\/2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}