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OpenPress — news and media publishing platform
A content management system built for editorial teams who publish all day, every day.
Built for the pace of a newsroom
OpenPress gives editorial teams the controls they actually use: fast article creation, clear section and tag structures, approval stages, scheduled publishing and live updates, on infrastructure planned for your busiest news days.
It draws on our experience building and running news and media platforms, where publishing speed, discoverability and uptime matter every hour of the day.
What OpenPress does
Newsroom editor
Write, format and preview articles with reusable content blocks, media library access and draft autosave.
Sections, tags and authors
Organise coverage with nested sections, topic tags and author profiles that build their own archive pages.
Approvals and scheduling
Draft, review and publish stages with revision history, scheduled release and embargo handling.
Live coverage
Rolling live blogs for elections, sport and breaking news, with timestamped entries and instant updates.
Advertising and monetisation
Ad slots by section and position, house campaigns, sponsored labels and paywall integration.
Built for peak traffic
Page caching, image optimisation and content delivery planned around your heaviest days.
Capabilities in detail
- Content modelArticles, galleries, videos, live blogs, opinion and long-form templates.
- Multi-languageEnglish, Sinhala, Tamil and Arabic structures, with right-to-left layouts where needed.
- Search and SEOEditable titles, descriptions, URLs, redirects, news sitemaps and structured data.
- DistributionNewsletters, push notifications, social posting and syndication feeds.
- AnalyticsEditorial dashboards showing article performance and reader engagement.
- Access controlRoles for writers, sub-editors, editors, advertising and administrators.
Who it is for
OpenPress suits any organisation that publishes on a schedule and needs several people to work on the same content without stepping on each other.
Common questions
Yes. Archive migration is scoped separately after a review of your current structure, URLs and media library.
Integrations are assessed case by case against provider availability and your commercial arrangements.
Yes. Editorial roles, permissions and training are set up as part of delivery.
See OpenPress with your own content
We can walk your editorial team through the workflows that matter most to you.