We Developed Collaborative Editing Into Our CMS for Newsrooms. This Is How.
A New York Times article requires a large team to publish, and things can get complicated. A single story may be written, revised, and published by a number of reporters and editors. This collaboration is frequently nonlinear, which can cause people to tread on each other's toes.
This is particularly true in cases involving breaking news, when numerous contributors (photo editors, copy editors, reporters, and producers) must simultaneously make adjustments to a document. One person could only edit a document at a time when we first developed Oak, The Times's next-generation article editing interface. "Field locking" was employed by Oak to provide some features for simultaneous cooperation, such as
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