Medill’s News Mixer Project

My last year at Northwestern, I would often visit Rich Gordon and talk shop about the past, present, and future of journalism. And where Medill fit in.

So it’s great to see many of the web era best practices embodied in the News Mixer release.

Brian Boyer, Ryan Mark, Angela Nitzke, Joshua Pollock, Stuart Tiffen and Kayla Webley (and Rich Gordon) all deserve some kudos for making this happen.

I downloaded the source for the Django-based framework, and already have some good patch ideas. More than anything else, I’d like to get News Mixer working on App Engine, so a new instance of the app could literally be up and running within minutes.