Newsroom Director Blog

It’s been about a month since the last update to Newsroom Director, and it’s now time to release a new feature along with some other minor tweaks.

Discussions are a new way for your staff to collaborate easily and seamlessly. Look under “My Paper” for “Discussions” when logged in. As it says on the website:

“Discussions are a new way to get things done. To get rid of meetings. To share ideas. To collaborate. There are two types of discussions: public & private. Public discussions are open to everyone. Private are only for certain people, chosen by the discussion’s creator. To create a new discussion, simply click “Create Discussion” on the left-hand menu.”

Advisers: You are able to edit/delete discussions and the posts within. This is the same by default for anyone who has access to the Admin panel. To change this, simply go to the Admin panel and click “Manage Positions”. Click the edit icon next to the position title, and make the change.

A few other minor tweaks to the program are listed below:

• In Messages, when sending messages to more than one person, it is listed only once in the outbox and all of the recipients are listed in the message.
• The names of some of the sections in the Draft Center have been changed slightly for clarity’s sake.
• Notifications in the top right corner and on the sidebar in the Draft Center are given for unread draft edits, making it easy to know when an edit has been received.
• “View All Drafts & Edits” in the Draft Center has been simplified.

Be on the lookout for new features coming in the near future!