CMS for journalists rolled out across the Telegraph newsroom and discussed in Nieman Lab
After months of work and a phased rollout, the CMS for journalists, Telegraph Authoring, is now in use by almost all of the newsroom.
October 2014- Stakeholder consultations and story mapping
We spent around three months running workshops with stakeholders and observing journalists at work to understand the current workflow, pain points and the desired workflow, from both practitioner and management perspectives.
January 2015 - Agile development begins
Jourmalist 'open days'
Stakeholders were engaged in the design process through weekly meetings, at-desk design testing and 'open days' where everyone was invited to try out prototypes and early code to give feedback.
Nov 2015 - Rollout begins, desk by desk
First desk launched on Authoring.