The ZENPRESS News Management System
ZENPRESS manages a News Page. On this page are short summaries of news items, headlines, and links to more detailed information.
There is an email interface for news. News items are sent into ZENPRESS via email. Our News Editor writes news items, puts them into an email message, sends that email message off to the ZENPRESS server.
ZENPRESS reads those email messages into a news database and automatically generates news headlines and summaries. This is a unique way of interfacing with a news system--we haven't seen email submission of news items elsewhere. Its purpose is so that we can have news correspondents anywhere in the world send in news items and have those items immediately flow into ZENPRESS without having to have a live connection or without having to have specific tools or software to get news items into the system. Any email client anywhere in the world can send news into ZENPRESS. Assuming, of course, that you have the appropriate passwords.
Every hour, for each publication, ZENPRESS scans its email inbox and the daily news is imported. We keep two days (this number can be easily changed by the News Editor each day) of news on the Daily News page. We keep ten days of news on the Recent News page, and 30 days of news on the News Archive page. Much older news is rotated off into a hidden internal news archive.
All of this automatic rotation of news items happens dynamically and automatically. When the news email messages are read by ZENPRESS, it also moves older mail from the Daily News page to the Recent News page, pushing older messages off the Recent News page and onto the News Archive, which in turn rolls even older messages into the News Archive.
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