Plone http://plone.org/ should be on your list to check out. It's designed as a communal publishing system with orderly content flows and a permission heirarchy for bringing submitted content to the site through moderators.
I've used it for several sites, and I expect it might fit your school newspaper model (perhaps multiple contributors to a periodical publication).
The best thing (I think) about Plone is your "users" can contribute rich articles to the site without dicking around in HTML or external editors. It all happens in the browser, any browser.
Server side, it's Python/Zope/CMF which is quite a few layers. It's worth it though, as these technologies are designed for running an object-oriented content system. If that sounds scary, you can just use it like most people and not worry about all that. But it's a powerful framework that can be customised if you want.
And it's got nothing to do with PHP, so right now you don't have the hacking worries from PHP based systems.
Installation and doco are easy, and Plone is free and runs on anything. Another big plus is there are smart people designing the system and the user interfaces. This pays off big when your readers and writers aren't technologists but just want to get the work done.
Apple's HyperCard from 1987 could call external commands and functions to/from external windows, other "stacks" and the calling "stack". It could play movies, show pictures, display rich documents.
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I've used it for several sites, and I expect it might fit your school newspaper model (perhaps multiple contributors to a periodical publication).
The best thing (I think) about Plone is your "users" can contribute rich articles to the site without dicking around in HTML or external editors. It all happens in the browser, any browser.
Server side, it's Python/Zope/CMF which is quite a few layers. It's worth it though, as these technologies are designed for running an object-oriented content system. If that sounds scary, you can just use it like most people and not worry about all that. But it's a powerful framework that can be customised if you want.
And it's got nothing to do with PHP, so right now you don't have the hacking worries from PHP based systems.
Installation and doco are easy, and Plone is free and runs on anything. Another big plus is there are smart people designing the system and the user interfaces. This pays off big when your readers and writers aren't technologists but just want to get the work done.
Apple's HyperCard from 1987 could call external commands and functions to/from external windows, other "stacks" and the calling "stack". It could play movies, show pictures, display rich documents. geo