Newscoop is the open content management system for professional journalists.

Features for the modern newsroom include multiple author management, issue-and-section based publishing, geolocation and multilingual content management. The enterprise-standard journalist’s dashboard and a templating engine supporting anything from HTML5 to mobile complete this fast production and publishing system. Read more about Newscoop history on his wikipedia page.

Quick links to our resources are:

• Manuals for Newscoop http://manuals.sourcefabric.org
• Forums and mailing lists: http://forum.sourcefabric.org
• Bug Tracking: http://dev.sourcefabric.org/browse/CS
• Public source code hosting: http://github.com/sourcefabric/Newscoop
• Download link: https://github.com/sourcefabric/Newscoop/releases/latest
• Developer’s wiki: https://wiki.sourcefabric.org/display/CS/
• Developer’s blog: https://dev-blog.sourcefabric.org
• Plugins Development’s documentation: http://docs.sourcefabric.org/projects/newscoop-plugins/en/latest/
• RESTful API documentation: http://docs.sourcefabric.org/projects/newscoop-restful-api/en/master/
• Developer’s Cookbooks: http://docs.sourcefabric.org/projects/newscoop-cookbook/en/latest/

Installation

Using console command

php application/console newscoop:install --fix --database_name newscoop --database_user root --database_password password

Default Admin Panel account is admin with password password.

For more details run:

php application/console newscoop:install --help

Using docker

Make sure docker and docker compose are installed (boot2docker or docker machine on OSX as well). Add the line 127.0.0.1 newscoop.docker to your /etc/hosts file. OSX users should use the ip of their virtualbox (e.g. boot2docker ip).

For running Newscoop in production mode:

docker-compose build
docker-compose up

For running Newscoop in development mode:

docker-compose -f docker-compose-dev.yml build
docker-compose -f docker-compose-dev.yml up

Requirements

• PHP version must be at least 5.4 on Debian and CentOS to run Newscoop properly. See PHP bug.

• MySQL can’t work in “strict mode”. Newscoop will currently break in many places when “strict mode” is enabled.

• If you use E_DEPRECATED error_reporting level in PHP 5.6, you can get the behaviour described in this PHP bug report.
  always_populate_raw_post_data must be set to -1 in your php.ini file.

Compatibility

Browsers	Tablets	Smartphones
Safari 7.1+	not supported	not supported
Google Chrome 31+	not supported	not supported
Internet Explorer 9+	not supported	not supported
Firefox 35+	not supported	not supported
Opera 27+	not supported	not supported

REST API documentation

REST API documentation will be available under the link: http://www.domain.com/documentation/rest-api/ after Newscoop installation is done.

How to contribute

Only 4 steps:

• Fork sourcefabric/Newscoop repository - how to fork.
• Clone your fork
• Create new local feature branch - how to create branch
• Create pull request with your feature/bugfix - how to create pull request

License

Newscoop is licensed under the GPL3 license.