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09/04/2015
Study compares, contrasts CMS publishing tools
From The Reynolds Journalism Institute
This first Tools We Use report focuses on the Web publishing platforms of newspapers. That's right, I said "papers," that innovative technology that disrupted the thriving wandering minstrel industry. Centuries later, newspapers are still the main way people get local news.
I checked 1,506 U.S. newspaper sites (1,303 dailies and 203 alternative weeklies) to find out what content management system (CMS) each used, employing several tech-detection services to pull in this usage data. A huge thanks to BuiltWith for donating an account to the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute.
A CMS is the publishing platform where you enter, edit and store data — such as articles. The top three CMSs worldwide are WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal (source: W3Techs, August 2015):