Editorial System for Multimedia Newsrooms

WoodWing boasts over 20 years of newspaper publishing experience. That’s why leading newspapers all over the globe, from small tabloid dailies up to multi-edition broadsheet metros, rely on our editorial system every day.

Newspaper Software for entire publishing process

Smart Newspapers supports the complete publishing process for a multimedia newsroom: content planning, gathering, creating, selecting, editing, producing and publishing. Its powerful page-planning integration allows smooth interaction with the advertising workflow. Further integration of Web, Mobile, archiving, wire feed and digital asset management systems provides you with one single solution: the best one available. Our Authorized Solution Partners will gladly share with you their many years of experience, derived from numerous successful business cases.

Multi-channel publishing system

A newspaper has become more than the daily printed issue. Web and Mobile require immediate publication. An accompanying weekly magazine may call for in-depth articles. Perhaps you need a recording for radio or TV broadcasting. That’s why WoodWing believes in the blended media concept. In this story-centric approach the writer can focus on his primary task: writing the ultimate story, consisting of multiple interrelated parts. To that end, he has all source information at his fingertips within a single editorial system.

First, he/she might publish a short item including audio, video or low-res images to the Web site. Perhaps the title and summary are used for RSS or a text message news service. Next, he could take the same dossier to produce a newspaper article with a higher quality photo for the next printed edition. But just as easily, he can create a full story first, and extract a Web site version at a later stage.

A different employee may simultaneously add an audio or video broadcast recording to the dossier. The archived dossier can later be used for research purposes or a comprehensive magazine article.

Editorial workflow, quality and creativity

We know that a smooth business process is absolutely vital to meet the deadline. With our advanced Web Editor, your reporters and editors in the field can work from any Internet connection on the planet directly inside the editorial system. Your in-house staff can keep working in their familiar environment: InDesign, InCopy, Word or Excel. Graphic artists will use Photoshop or Illustrator.

Both for internal and external contributors, the customizable workflow will ensure swift but thorough reviews, increase content quality and enforce security. E-mail attachment and document version anarchy will be ancient history. Truly parallel content and page layout production saves both stress and critical deadline time. Writers, editors and designers can work simultaneously on the same item.

Adobe InDesign is clearly the best page-layout application on the market. We enhanced it even further to make newspaper layout much more efficient. Smart Newspapers fully integrates Adobe InDesign in its editorial database environment. Put it all together and you get the best of three worlds: perfect design tools for the best-looking newspaper, efficient newspaper layout and a streamlined production.

Editorial Management

As in any organization, management information is vital. You can keep an eye on publication progress through any intranet or extranet Web browser. Monitor all work in progress through flexible reports, deadline overviews and thumbnail publications. Browse and query the database to get answers to specific questions. Manage your publications, stories, and files.

Cross Media Content Publishing platform

The basis for all this is our state-of-the-art Enterprise Content Publishing Platform, providing repository, workflow and content management system functionality. Its open architecture enables tight integration with your existing software environment, it supports all your publications and editions, encompasses any printed or digital media, and handles images, text, audio, video and more.