When I helped a college newspaper get set up with WordPress a few years ago, I kept running into little ways in which making WordPress work for a multi-person news organization was … well, usually not impossible, but often a little awkward. So it was great to stumble across this post about how the Bangor Daily News made it work, including making WordPress work with Google Docs and InDesign to make everything part of a single workflow.
The post includes a list of some good plugins for news sites using WordPress, some of them written by the BDN for this project. The blog about the transition is an interesting read.
I also spent an afternoon this weekend going through about four years’ worth of archives on Mario Garcia’s blog, including posts about experimenting with front pages, designing better ads, and completely rethinking a newspaper’s organization.