Publishers (especially newspapers) are going to some very rough times. Most of the journalist and publishers are still in denial about how the web changed the creation and gathering of news and are up in their ivory tower thinking they publish for dead-trees and web is just an over hyped toy medium. While smarter publishers understand that the web is a disruptive technology and if they do not change, they will become a dinosaur.

Some of those publishers that do get it, think that they only way to be online is via the same tool that the competition is using. Their is no branch in the world that is so inside-thinking as the publishing market. Newspapers still do not understand that they are not competing with other newspapers anymore, but with every single site on the Internet. And this is why "braindead" tools like escenic still have a huge market; newspaper A chooses a proprietary tool, so newspaper B has to have the same tool.

In that respect it is good to see that more and more newspapers are not using what another newspaper is using, but what other quality sites are using as a tool to publish. And today, a newspapers therefor switched to Drupal.

The news on jornalsim.co.uk

The world’s oldest Jewish newspaper, London-based The Jewish Chronicle, has re-launched its news site using free open source software Drupal.

The Jewish Chronicle, popularly known as The JC, has become the latest news site to choose open source software Drupal as its content management system (CMS).

"I would like to think we are the first national news site in the UK to run on Drupal, but I do not know for certain that we are. At the moment we are in beta mode, so we are not shouting about it," Richard Burton, managing editor of The JC, told Journalism.co.uk.

For the former editor of Telegraph.co.uk, who joined the title in February 2007, the contrast between the expensive, large-scale online development at his former newspaper and the low-cost, lightweight use of Drupal could not be starker.

I like that, cheaper then the big projects that are twice as expensive, taking 3 times as long to implement and deliverg half the functionality. Read also this article that is related to this.

I do think that Drupal will grow in every market, but public and media are the two markets that will adapt the power of Drupal really fast.