BREAKING NEWS

• Single-page UI with Cards
  • Cards grouped by functionality
  • Foldable, rearrangeable cards
• Contextual, role-based fields and options
  • E.g. Hot Seat Editor: Options to display homepage banner and send mobile notification
• Assignment (non-mvp)
  • Select predetermined action, e.g. write article, insert image
  • Assign User or User Group
  • Set priority
  • Insert memo (optional)
  • View history of assignments
• Simultaneous editing
  • Lock individual fields while in use
  • Simultaneous body editing per block (paragraph) level
  • Real-time update of the changed fields
• Full rich text editor
  • Stylize
  • Hyperlink to stock ticker (Place, People, Organization, etc.) & external URL
  • Embed assets & external embed code
• Autosaving
• Social
  • Ability to share out to social media (Twitter)
  • Ability to preview the social post
  • Ability to override the og/twitter tags
• Chat
  • With all the collaborators within the content
  • @ mentioning to be integrated with Slack
• Auto-population of fields:
  • Hyperlinked tickers to Primary Assets section
  • First image to Media card
  • Title to all the title-related fields
    • Title to SEO Title and Link Headline
    • Link Headline to Social Link Headline
    • SEO Title to Permalink Slug
• Revision history
• Preview
  • High fidelity preview

MEDIA

• Media Library with images and videos
  • Other Media types, e.g. Chart, Audio, etc. can be added
• Integration of 3rd-party sources e.g. Getty Images, AP Images, Reuters
• One-click licensing
  • Only available for Photo Editors
• Edit media item’s metadata
• Focal point & rectangle
• Image edit
  • Levels
  • Vignettes
  • Crop: if using services like Cloudinary
• Filter out the photos that are last published 1 day, 2 days, 1 week, etc. ago
  • Only available for Photo Editors
  • Other users would only see the photos that are available for use, i.e. licensed, free-to-use, haven’t been used in the past 2 days

BREAKING NEWS FIELDS/ELEMENTS

• Title/SEO Title/URL/Headline: Title of the article. SEO Title & URL & Headline default to match the Title, but are editable by the user.
• Slug: Internal title
• Permalink: URL of the article
• Ability to send out red banner & push notification
• Body: Text of the article
  • Needs initial body placeholder: “This story is developing. Please check back for further updates. Click here for the latest on the markets.”
• Dateline: Date that gets displayed in the article.
• Source
• Text editor styling and embeds:
  • Subtitle
  • Hyperlink
    • Stock ticker
    • External links
  • Media (Image/Video)
  • Slideshow
  • External embeds, e.g. YouTube, Twitter, etc.
  • Pull Quote
• Association to:
  • Franchise: Topic of the article / where the article appears on the front-end
    • Catastrophe
  • Primary Assets: articles appearing under that url – tags
  • Related Assets

• Shorter Headline, Shortest Headline, Descriptions (SEO), Keywords
  • Different length for different usage, description and keywords for SEO.
  • Needs letter count – if the initial headline fits the character count of the other fields, automatically copy over?
  • Description is usually copied over from the lead
• Role-specific options
  • Hot Seat: Display banner & send mobile notifications switches
  • Social Media Associate Producer: Social sharing of the story
• Other general cards & elements
  • Settings & Configuration
    • Comments (option)
    • Family-friendly (option)
    • Dateline (option)
    • Byline (option)
    • Source (option)
    • Allow Syndication (option)
    • Premium Content (option)
    • Native (option)
    • Pre-roll on videos (option)
    • Template: Select Template
    • Skin: Select Skin
  • Team & Project
    • Team: Select Team, e.g. CNBC US Team
    • Project: Select Project

GLOBAL

• Able to view latest published content within all of CMS
• Performance Statistics (High priority)
  • Integration of 3rd party services: Omniture, Chartbeat, Domo (Referral tracking on social), Spredfast (Engagement – click, video play, reading the article, comment), Facebook Insights
  • Charts of the entire CNBC.com’s performance, e.g. monthly visitors of the site
  • Charts of the articles’ performance, e.g. comments, views, reads, etc.
    • Any article that the user have edited
  • Charts of social media performance, e.g. Top 5 Facebook referrals
  • Import the preset charts in various analytics services
    • e.g. Filter by articles that have more than 50 comments, more than 500 views, etc.

PERSONALIZED CONTENT

• Favorites – allows for shortcuts to pages
• Able to view your latest activities
  • Published, Saved, and Assigned
• Your Tasks (non-mvp)
  • Able to view the priority of the task
  • Each task is Immediately linked to the corresponding content
  • Tasks can be rearranged
  • Completed tasks are removed
  • Ability to instantly share to social media for Social Media team
• Status Tracker
  • Track the status of the item in the list
    • Able to track the Publish, Save, and Assign actions made by different users
  • Item that you saved/published automatically gets added to the tracker
  • Able to add item to track from Content Library
  • Able to remove the item from the tracker