Django CMS

1 Open source
2 Proprietary
- 2.1 Ellington CMS

Open source

Courant News

Courant News is a content management system built specifically for student news organizations by Max Cutler, Robert Baskin, and Paul O'Shannessy. From their welcome blog post:

It all began last summer, when we came up with an idea for a startup company: an online publishing platform for college news organizations. We wanted to be a better alternative to College Publisher - a content management system for college news organizations designed by college news organizations. We went pretty far with the idea. We worked hard for several months and invested many hours in designing, coding, and planning to market our product. However, we soon realized that we could more effectively serve the college journalism community by open sourcing our efforts.

It already has articles, issues, multimedia, comments, and search, and Max, Robert, and Andrew Spittle are working on Nando, the editorial admin, over winter 2009-2010. The content management system is in use at the Yale Daily News.

Find more updates on the CoPress blog

Django Newsroom

The Django Newsroom is a project with the three following goals:

Create a simple, packaged, auto-install content management system for news organizations that is built specifically for journalists to tell stories online.
Release a public source code to engage the community to participate in improving the system to evolve with the changing needs of the industry.
Develop a software community whose sole purpose would be to maintain the software and update it regularly to keep it secure and relevant.

Gazjango

Ochs

Ochs is an "open source solution for web journalism" developed at the University of Tennessee for the School of Journalism and Electronic Media news website. The lead developer is Joseph Agreda and the code is hosted on Google Code.

Populous Project

The Populous Project is a Knight News Challenge-funded CMS for student news organizations. There are three phases to the project: a CMS, a Digital Newsroom, and a Social Network.