We've always looked to the physical newsroom as the #1 source of wisdom for creating a culture that produces great content. Offline interaction can be quicker and more subtle, especially in editorial. That's why Camayak newsrooms can now see who's working on what, in real-time. This is Camayak's latest move towards allowing teams to expand and thrive beyond their physical...

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NEW YORK, NY — Today, Camayak is launching a unique partnership with Chartbeat to give campus newsrooms across the country access to better digital analytics. Twelve college newsrooms including the University of Oregon’s Emerald Media Group, Texas Christian University’s TCU360, and California State University, Northridge’s Daily Sundial will begin to use Chartbeat tools to measure the real-time engagement of their...

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If you're managing an editorial agency that works with multiple clients who want their own newsrooms, or freelancing for a variety of publications that use Camayak, we've just made it easier to stay on top of all your priorities. Camayak users can now switch effortlessly between the newsrooms they belong to, prompted by the number of unread notifications that they...

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We work with plenty of journalists who use primary source material alongside their assignments. Now they can store theses files with their work directly in Camayak, so their colleagues can access them, too. Simply use the media tab and upload the file of your choice to store along with everything else you need to sh...

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It all started with a community college in Torrance, California. "Oh, so you're not a CMS?" Kate McLaughlin - the adviser to the student media department at El Camino College asked. "I think I get what you're saying. You're just workflow, right? That could actually be really helpful". Soon after El Camino College became our first beta tester in 2011,...

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We've been working on a feature to help newsrooms figure out how to evaluate and pay their staff more efficiently, week-in, week-out. Here's why. Save time Every fortnight, writers at the Kansas State Collegian fill out their pay sheets so they can show their editors what they worked on. On average, let's say it takes just 2 minutes for each...

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After we launched our daily email roundup, editors asked us to include a reminder to their writers if they had upcoming deadlines. From today, we'll let your writers know if they have a deadline within the next 24 hours. We'll even nag them if they miss it. We've also changed the way your calendar looks in Camayak so you can...

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This is a plot about four newsrooms using the Camayak platform. We plot various indicators of readership over time. The time dimension is represented in the music as time. The music is composed of verses, each verse corresponding to a season. Each season is broken into four equal parts (approximately 23 days each), and each verse is correspondingly broken into...

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We're offering every student newsroom we work with the chance to earn $300 by shooting and editing a 60-second video to explain how your staff use Camayak. Any newsroom that meets the criteria for what we're looking for will receive a $50 check right away*. Then, if we select your video to use as part of our marketing and training...

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Tomorrow we're going to be performing system updates. You won't be able to access Camayak during this period so please make sure you've saved your work before we get started. We're going to repeat the same thing on Thursday morning so the same will apply, then. If you're based in Europe you're most likely to be affected by this, so...

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