Every week we welcome more excellent writers to Camayak. Starting this month, we're partnering with major publishers including Parade Magazine and PolicyMic to find contributors who can pitch ideas and claim commissions to expand their portfolios. We're looking for writers who can produce first-class work on specific topics for an audience of up to 50+ million monthly viewers. Parade (gaming,...

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We know budget restrictions can prevent newsrooms from investing in all the tools they'd like to use. That's why we're launching one free newsroom in every state for campuses to communicate and share editorial resources with other local student media. How does it work? For example, if you're a student editor, reporter or photographer on a campus in Georgia, you're...

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Today we launched three new features for photographers using Camayak. Adding photographer credit to your images. From now on when you click edit on any photo you upload, you can add the photographer's name by searching your staff and adding them as the photo credit. Getting photo credit on your website(s). If you're publishing photos directly from Camayak to your...

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Editorial workflow has become a more popular focus area for publishers looking for opportunities to redefine themselves. At Camayak we started with the question: "what if we could make it easier for newsrooms to coordinate their daily tasks and use their own collaboration data to help them become more sophisticated?". This week we're taking a big step towards outlining our...

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Last year, Buzzfeed's CEO Jonah Peretti cited the company's decision to build its own technology services as one of the key reasons behind its exciting trajectory: We manage our own servers, we built our CMS from scratch, we created our own realtime stats system, we have our own data science team, we invented own ad products and our own post...

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One of the features that we've been really looking forward to adding to Camayak is a better way to give feedback on specific parts of assignments. After working closely with a number of editors and contributors, we're excited to announce the release of our very own in-line comments. We made two key decisions in our implementation of in-line comments: that...

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This Summer, Duke University's Duke Chronicle and UCLA's Daily Bruin will join the growing ranks of community, state and private college newsrooms adopting Camayak, together with at least half a dozen professional organizations and the winners of our 50 high school licenses giveaway, launched earlier this year. Both the Daily Bruin and Duke Chronicle staffs have already contributed to Camayak's...

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Camayak Ltd. is delighted to announce a new partnership with Daniel O'Connor, the creator of BeatStrap: a new live-blogging tool for Twitter users. O'Connor, a computer science major at Binghamton University, has a track record of launching innovative web-based apps and was responsible last year for Pipe Dream - Binghamton's student-run newspaper - developing its own responsive WordPress theme. O'Connor...

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Your news team is working on a story that's already looking like next week's top headline. Your social media lead is broadcasting football updates on Twitter. You have half a dozen reporters writing blog pieces on the upcoming union elections and your star designer is deciding whether to go for an infographic or cartoon to clarify the latest budget cuts....

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When we first got started building Camayak, we had identified a need for more legitimate content production solutions for digitally-conscious publishers. The traditional application of a 'CMS' (Content Management System), we felt, had gradually distracted business managers and publishers from investing in software that could assist their staff with content production, as well as content display. Another way to approach...

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