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Life & fun · June 23, 2014

Scoop

The New York Times' CMS

Scoop launched on June 23, 2014 with 96 votes, #257 of 1,531 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.

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What it does

A look at Scoop, the CMS that powers NYTimes.com and its mobile apps.

You know the importance of technology to the future of journalism has become a widely accepted fact when a prominent editor decides to join a new company because of its content management system. That’s what Ezra Klein told The New York Times about his decision to leave The Washington Post for Vox Media, a digital publisher with a fancy, custom-built CMS. Klein couldn’t quite describe what made the Vox system so special, but the fact that a journalist said he loved, let alone even tolerated, his CMS was all you needed to know that the world has changed. Suddenly, the CMS, an often derided but necessary tool of modern journalism, is cool. Vox uses its CMS as a recruiting tool.…from archive.nytimes.com

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