For $129/month publishers are now paying all their writers directly from Camayak. Payments are made automatically once a writer's work is approved and Camayak takes care of any 1099s that need to go out, too. This saves publishers hours each week on managing payroll by cutting checks or navigating Paypal. It's also cut down the waiting time for freelancers that...

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Editors love deadlines. Especially when they're for other people. Half of the assignments given to writers in Camayak include a first submission deadline. But only 1 in 5 editors gives themselves a deadline to approve the work. When we asked editors about this, almost all of them welcomed the benefits of also having deadlines themselves. So what's stopping them?Answer: many...

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This evening we're upgrading our hardware to make sure we can keep growing the number of newsrooms that use Camayak. From the following times, Camayak will be inaccessible until we've completed the upgrades. We're expecting it to take up to two hours and we'll be updating our Twitter feed until we complete the job. It's possible it won't take as...

At their best, real-time analytics echo the excitement of what's happening in your newsroom. Their immediacy is provocative and that helps encourage staff to take note of the insights at their fingertips. If you're using Chartbeat or Parse.ly to track your audience, you probably have a big screen in your newsroom that lets everyone see what's capturing their attention. Check...

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Assignment templatesAround one in three of the organizations that use Camayak to manage their editorial workflows have set up assignment templates to save them time and improve the consistency of their submissions. Are you moving to a model where your reporters are also tasked with submitting their own media with every story they work on? With templates you can also...

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Here are a few simple habits you can develop that will help your newsroom respond to breaking news. Keep your newsroom tidyBetween hectic production nights and collecting ideas from freelancers that never flourished, you may find yourselves stuck with dozens - even hundreds - of assignments in your newsroom that are clogging up your dashboards. Not only does this make...

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Back in 2014 TownNews, the CMS provider that currently serves over 1,600 media organizations announced an integration with Camayak to help customers scale their editorial workflows independently of continuing to customize their CMS. The integration between Camayak and BLOX - TownNews' flagship CMS product - allows newsrooms to track all their assignments in Camayak before approving them directly for publication...

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These new shortcuts are now available to every Camayak user: h - Navigate to the Home pagen - Launch the "New" dropdownr - Launch the "Recent" dropdownu - Launch the "Online" dropdowno - Launch the "Organization" dropdowna - Launch your account dropdown/ or s - Launch the search dropdownm - Launch the notifications dropdowni - Launch the "Help" drop...

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