Newscoop News

Yemen Times launches news platform, restores lost archive using Newscoop

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:16:45 +0100

Yemen Times, the country's first and most widely-read independent English-language newspaper, has launched their new website yementimes.com and has begun to restore the largest online news database in Yemen. Having experienced severe technical difficulties that threatened the newspaper's online existence for more than two years, the newspaper collaborated with open source software developers Sourcefabric to build an entirely new platform.

Newscoop 4.0 Beta released with themes, community builder and article playlists

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:09:22 +0100

Newscoop 4.0, the open source content management system for online news media, has been released in beta. Newscoop 4.0 builds in an all new community management feature-set, totally overhauls the look and feel of a site with Themes and adds great extra functionality for ordering, connecting and displaying articles.

Sourcefabric announces newsroom tool for independent media

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:23:16 +0100

Sourcefabric has announced it has begun work on a new software called Superdesk, which joins Airtime and Newscoop in its suite of free, open source tools for independent media. Superdesk's aim is to allow news organisations to build flexible, scalable newsrooms and deliver content to any available platform. Superdesk has been nominated as a finalist in the Ashoka Changemakers Citizen Media Innovation award.

Journalism goes open source at Mediafabric in Prague

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 08:34:04 +0100

Mediafabric 2011 saw over 250 guests arrive from five continents this weekend in Prague to explore new ideas at the intersection of journalism and open technology. The one day conference and two day hackathon was organised by Sourcefabric, a Czech not-for-profit promoting open source tools for journalists.

Sourcefabric Extends News Design Contest Deadline

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:26:31 +0100

Sourcefabric has extended the deadline of its global news design contest to 1800h GMT on October 7th 2011. Designers are asked to send in mock-ups of news sites that invent fresh ways to display journalistic content. Winners get plane tickets to Prague, accommodation and VIP passes to the Mediafabric 2011 conference to meet some of the world's leading media experts.

Sourcefabric launches theme contest at first Central American conference

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:58:56 +0100

Sourcefabric took the occasion of their first ever Central American conference on July 15th 2011 to launch a new global theme contest. Designers worldwide are invited to submit themes for Newscoop, the open source CMS for news organisations.

Newscoop 3.5.3 released May 19th

Thu, 19 May 2011 17:37:41 +0100

Newscoop 3.5.3, the open source content management system for professional journalists, was released by Sourcefabric on May 19th. Three is the magic number for Newscoop 3.5.3, with 33 bug fixes ranging from the powerful search interface, to the wysiwyg article edit screen, to the installation process itself.

Newscoop 3.5.2 is out!

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:01:21 +0100

Newscoop 3.5.2 addresses security and stability issues with over 60 bug fixes, including improvements to the dashboard (your customisable workspace just got faster), the article edit screen (cleaner, stabler WYSIWYG editing, previewing and image handling) and the blogs, interviews and polls plugins (plus a new plugin enabling reCAPTCHA in comments). There are a few changes behind the scenes too which deal with tightening security so upgrade is strongly recommended.

Newscoop 3.5.1 released!

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:03:32 +0100

On 18th February 2011, Sourcefabric announced the release of Newscoop 3.5.1. Newscoop 3.5.1 was released as a security update to 3.5 and fixed an XSS vulnerability in the admin login page plus front end vulnerablities to Cross-Site Scripting attacks. The full changelog can be found here.

Newscoop 3.5. By Journalists, For Journalists.

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 20:49:46 +0100

Multi-author management, geolocation with intuitive map interface, increased speed and an interface tailored for journalists - Newscoop, the open content management system for professional journalists, has been released as version 3.5.