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The New York Times gives readers a peek behind the curtain with a look at the custom-built content management system that powers the behemoth publishing company. The Times says their CMS, Scoop, is "central to our ambitions to innovate on all platforms [and] the repository for all the aspirations for what the merging of print and digital journalism may one day become." So, what makes Scoop so great?
At its heart, Scoop is a typical CMS platform that shuffles news stories around and integrates with its reader comment and developer tools. Unlike publishing platforms that simply turn Word-based documents into readable web content, Scoop lets reporters write within the system and...