DjangoCon 2008 Panel: Django in Journalism
summary
Journalism teams report shipping projects in hours not months: a four-hour GeoDjango map for evacuation shelters, PolitiFact and neighborhood real‑estate apps, dog‑registration and state school‑score sites; reporters enter data via an admin-first workflow while developers build views. Pain points are missing DB migrations and richer aggregates, clunky syndication feeds, and editor tooling (tinyMCE, visual/HTML toggle). SEO and embeddable widgets drive traffic; quick iPhone interfaces and open archives surface long‑tail value when combined with solid URLs and title tags.
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chapters (31)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:24Ben Welsh
- 1:17Matt Smith
- 2:06LA Times
- 2:45Atlanta Journal Constitution
- 3:18Media for Media
- 4:13Django in Journalism
- 7:55Quickest turnaround
- 9:02Running gags
- 10:37Memorial Day project
- 14:45Django CMS
- 15:15Django Admin Training
- 16:25Dealing with Data
- 18:24Public Data in LA
- 19:57Multiple Deleting
- 20:42Learning Python
- 24:09Feeds Framework
- 24:47D migrations
- 26:50Migrations
- 27:53Aggregate
- 32:37trunk
- 33:04QA
- 37:06Chicago Tribune
- 38:36HTML
- 38:59Django vs WordPress
- 40:47Categories
- 42:35Newspaper Decline
- 43:10Page Views vs Dollars
- 47:32Online Journalism
- 49:47SEO
- 50:57Archives
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