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So just what is Superdesk anyway?

by Douglas Arellanes 20.11.2014
Superdesk is under development and will be in production in Q3 2015. | Photo Sourcefabric (CC BY SA)
Superdesk is under development and will be in production in Q3 2015. | Photo Sourcefabric (CC BY SA)

Superdesk is an end-to-end news creation, production, curation, distribution and publishing platform. Built by journalists, for journalists, Superdesk has a modular software design that enables news organizations to pick and choose the functionality relevant to their business.

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From the ground up from down under

by Sava Tatić 11.11.2014
AAP is joining Sourcefabric's efforts to develop an end-to-end newsroom management system. I Photo by Corey Leopold (CC BY 2.0)
AAP is joining Sourcefabric's efforts to develop an end-to-end newsroom management system. I Photo by Corey Leopold (CC BY 2.0)

Australian Associated Press (AAP), the cornerstone of Australia’s news-media scene for nearly 80 years, and Sourcefabric have just signed an agreement to replace AAP’s aging newsroom system with Superdesk.

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Australian news agency AAP joins Superdesk effort

by Theo Schwinke 11.11.2014
Design concept for Superdesk dashboard. | Photo Sourcefabric (CC by 2.0)
Design concept for Superdesk dashboard. | Photo Sourcefabric (CC by 2.0)

Open source software developer Sourcefabric has signed Australian Associated Press to help develop an end-to-end news creation, production, curation, distribution and publishing platform. The two parties are inviting other news publishers to participate in the project, called Superdesk.

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Put Live Blog 2.0 to the test

by Theo Schwinke 28.08.2014
Fast moving stories like the recent unrest in Ferguson, Missouri need real-time coverage. | Photo Loavesofbread (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Fast moving stories like the recent unrest in Ferguson, Missouri need real-time coverage. | Photo Loavesofbread (CC BY-SA 4.0)

We’re looking for a few good journalists to test Live Blog 2.0 in real news situations and give us their unvarnished impressions.

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Live Blog 2.0 stable is here!

by Sebastian Horn 26.08.2014
This is how it feels at the Berlin and Cluj offices right now. | Photo Jochen Jansen (CC BY-SA 3.0)
This is how it feels at the Berlin and Cluj offices right now. | Photo Jochen Jansen (CC BY-SA 3.0)

After weeks of intense testing and bug fixing, we are proud to release Live Blog 2.0 stable today. This version of our real time storytelling app makes it easy for publishers to have their live blogs indexed by search engines, which means that more readers will see and follow your stories.

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Citizen Desk: Connecting newsrooms to witnesses

by Douglas Arellanes 7.08.2014
Citizen Desk will help newsrooms verify user generated content. | Photo Anton Muhajir (CC BY-NC 2.0)
Citizen Desk will help newsrooms verify user generated content. | Photo Anton Muhajir (CC BY-NC 2.0)

We're making Citizen Desk a stable tool that anyone can use to collect and verify eyewitness media. Come have a look at our work-in-progress.

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Live Blog syndication in Finland

by Theo Schwinke 12.05.2014

Finland's leading news agency, STT-Lehtikuva was searching for a way to cover events live and create new content to sell to their clients. Sourcefabric Live Blog gave them the solution they needed.

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Who, what, when, verify

by Douglas Arellanes 7.05.2014

We all know that ‘YouTube’ is not a source, right? Or maybe not. According to a Tow Center for Journalism study, 14% of YouTube videos share by the media are not correctly attributed.

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A round-up of Live Blog coverage

by Kristin Trethewey 30.04.2014

Zeit Online, Rheinische Post and many others are already using Sourcefabric Live Blog to report real news in real time. Here's a round-up of the Live Blog community.

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Lessons from Global Innovation Week

by Veronika Divišová 9.04.2014

Sourcefabric and @Verdade came home from the Making All Voices Count Global Innovation Challenge with a wealth of ideas for the future of citizen journalism. 

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Building themes for Live Blog

by Nkola Nikolić 28.03.2014

We're planning a public release of Live Blog in the next few months. As we get closer to then, we want to start introducing some concepts behind Live Blog and how you use it.

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