This is what the company's website says: "CCI NewsGate is a feature-rich software solution for cross-media publishing, but it is first and foremost an efficient and flexible platform for business development in a media landscape that seems to be in constant transformation."Is Gannett testing this software? Please post your replies in the comments section, below. To e-mail confidentially, write jimhopkins[at]gmail[dot-com]; see Tipsters Anonymous Policy in the rail, upper right.
I'm wondering if CCI NewsGate has anything to do with the impending launch of a new template for Gannett's U.S. community newspaper websites.
ReplyDeletewelcome to the consolidated editorial system
ReplyDeleteIt is used in Louisville, Asheville, and Greenville, which are networked together, with Louisville being the editing and production hub for the three papers. NewsGate integrates print and web platforms in a fashion that is intended to be seamless, but isn't. It's far better for web usage than other editorial systems, though, and this type of program is the wave of the future for media companies.
ReplyDeleteThe hub also means, of course, if CCI goes down, three papers might not publish, instead of one.
As for a new template for Gannett's newspaper web sites, everyone please pray that it's better than the current one. Many of the present web sites are hideous, slow to load and full of advertising booby traps for the unwary.
Does ContentOne have anything to do with this consolidated editorial system?
ReplyDeleteThe bad thing about consolidations is.. Diversification within business is good..
ReplyDeleteIf everyone is on the same software and cell company, they live and die by their viability and have a hard time in crisis.
Diversity also breeds innovation. Consolidation limits the number of locations where true innovation can occur.
Heh 9:29 do you really believe that crock of crap or are you just pontificating for the masses. Obviously you've never run a business. Sorry but a For Profit business has to make money. Having 10 different cell carriers or softward companies is foolish. Sorry if the truth hurts.
ReplyDeleteContent One is buying software and spending a shitload of money. Gracia is like a drunken sailor giving money to Content One and Mark Morneu's IT division.
ReplyDeleteThey are silly with it. Silly!!!
Jim -- CCI NewsGate has been around Gannett since before you left USA Today. And it's been part of discussions and planning within Gannett and USA Today for years.
ReplyDelete8:35 is right. To answer your question directly, no. Most modern front ends can feed any online content management system with XML or whatever is required.
ReplyDeleteNewsgate is a publishing system that:
- can be integrated with any online CMS with ease,
- integrates with any advertising system,
- most importantly: allows for a hub system - one centrally-located system can be used by several different papers remotely.
(get it now?)
CCI uses either InDesign or its own layout tools for design, uses Microsoft Word as a familiar interface for reporters and editors, and is generally solid as a rock. It can be run on Macs or PCs.
Lots of other big npp publishers, including Tribune and McClatchy, use CCI to support their hub editorial and CMS operations. Wouldn't be any shock to see Gannett take the same step.
ReplyDeleteSeriously Jim. Even you were using CCI to files stories.
ReplyDelete5:02 pm: Of course. But I wondered whether NewsGate was a new version, and whether it's being more broadly deployed.
ReplyDeleteNewsGate is a generation or more beyond what you used, Jim. The CCI system you had at USA Today did not have NewsGate's web/multiplatform functionality, nor the easy of networking across various newspapers.
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