Finally published this on what my team have been doing at @thetimes for the past two years: fixing a ton of backend, and building a new frontend for journalists to construct our homepage.

We call it Edition Builder. Because I can& #39;t stand obscure naming. https://medium.com/digital-times/building-editions-at-the-times-2c634ec0912b">https://medium.com/digital-t...

From a prototype that @chrishutchinson and I came up with years ago, to today& #39;s edition live in the system.

This is super niche, but also super important imo, because as a publisher you need to own as much of your publishing stack as possible (because y& #39;know, its your business)

This is especially true if you come up with anything remotely innovative, like the concept of serialised or edition-based publishing, like we did at The Times and Sunday Times, and then based it on a system that made it difficult to do for years.

Your journalists will only be able to do as much as you enable them to do, and a lot of that nowadays is in what your system gives them in terms of ease of use, augmented production and process, and extensibility.

This is a tenet that we forgot when we moved to digital media.

We& #39;ll do a few more pieces in the coming weeks (when I get back from https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇲🇾" title="Flagge von Malaysia" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Malaysia"> for CNY) that focus on the engineering challenges, and the cultural barriers we had to overcome. Good lessons I hope for many media orgs.

Fav this and I& #39;ll make sure you don& #39;t miss them https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😄" title="Lächelndes Gesicht mit geöffnetem Mund und lächelnden Augen" aria-label="Emoji: Lächelndes Gesicht mit geöffnetem Mund und lächelnden Augen">

Reviving this thread from pre-coronavirus to say I finally wrote that second part of this series.

Read about some of the lessons learned from building our new Editions CMS at @thetimes and @thesundaytimes. https://medium.com/digital-times/what-we-learned-from-rebuilding-our-editions-cms-for-the-times-78c603ea3a20">https://medium.com/digital-t...

And to those that signed up for the second post and never heard back, sorry!https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😢" title="Weinendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Weinendes Gesicht">

Thank you and a fresh https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👋" title="Waving hand" aria-label="Emoji: Waving hand"> to @jonhew @jshield @gdoppelese @Adriana_Lacy @risj_oxford @webcurtpsu @benwhitelaw @MrJonty @germaineasa @aendrew hope you& #39;re all doing great