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Newspapers

The current challenges facing newspaper publishers are familiar to all involved in the industry. The demand is to do more with less. A publisher must replace rapidly declining print channel revenue and reduce editorial costs of production while effectively driving increased content, digital products and channels.

OpenText Content Hub for Publishers enables journalists and editors to create effective content in one place and package and distribute it effortlessly across publishing channels including print, web, mobile and tablet formats.

OpenText Content Hub for Publishers is valued today as an integral tool for major news publishers, such as Telegraph Media Group and Trinity Mirror, who user it to support the production of hundreds of newspapers and their related digital properties. Benefits include:

  • One interface for journalists to view all the content being received, worked on and archived including all the versions and revisions for all channels.
  • Increased content re-use through better content links to semantically similar and related material.
  • Simpler content authoring and packaging for multiple channels output
  • Simpler content distribution to the publishing channel platforms such as print, web, smartphone and tablet.
  • Better control over versions and revisions for content published to all and any channel.
  • Improved control over content rights management.
  • Reduced content authoring and management costs.
  • Higher syndication and licensing revenues through better knowledge of content, rights and easier distribution.

For newspapers, OpenText Content Hub for Publishers is a modular solution. In a single, browser-based application, it incorporates the following functions:

  • High volume picture feed ingestion - over 100,000 pictures a day. For instance, it was used for the London Olympics in 2012.
  • Picture Desk support for viewing, comparing, selecting and cropping pictures.
  • Video ingestion and desk support for frame grabs and clipping.
  • Text wire feed ingestion and browsing using advanced semantic metadata tagging to relate similar stories in incoming, work-in-progress and library content.
  • Contributor portal for the upload of content from external contributors.
  • Rich authoring tool for story creation and editing including configurable versions and revisions for channel specific components.
  • Packaging, formatting and distribution of article text, pictures, galleries, graphics, videos and sound files for specific channels.
  • Integration with print editorial platforms using web services APIs.
  • Integration with web, mobile and tablet publishing platforms using web services APIs.
  • Full auditing and tracking of all actions and changes including versions and revisions.
  • Complete find and search facilities using simple, faceted and advanced search making optimal use of OpenText’s Content Analytics for semantic metadata
  • Complete library of all published and valuable content storing hundreds of millions of assets and their relationships and usage across editions.
  • Sophisticated metadata model supporting flexible and easily extensible needs as changes occur and specific needs arise.