Tooling DvhN

When working with journalists, you’ll find out soon that they are masters at writing text or creating audio or video. But tech skills are rather uncommon. This creates a challenge when you are collectively creating a website or other digital product where some technical knowledge will help get the work done much better and quicker.

This means that they needed some help with getting articles into the CMS. That particular CMS (Escenic) had a lot of options but wasn’t very user friendly.

The tooling was there to make sure every editor could create custom HTML items in their articles. This gave them a lot of freedom in how to create their article and how to tell their stories. Thanks to these custom elements, the stories were told in a much more rich and enticing way.

Obviously it’s a joy for me to see that these tools were used for years even after I moved on to another job.

Project Details

Client: Dagblad van het Noorden

Date: 2016