So what exactly is Kapost? CEO Toby Murdock describes it as a newsroom platform that publishers can use to manage content submitted by a large number of contributors. Murdock explains that many online publishers that feature content from many contributors, like The Huffington Post, have to build their own custom systems for managing, editing, and eventually publishing this incoming content — Kapost wants to fill this niche. And unlike Grogger, which required publishers to tie a new CMS into their workflow, Kapost will integrate with existing CMS solutions.
At this point the product is still pretty early — it includes core functionality like assigning stories to authors, but some of the more advanced features, like distributing payments to contributors and editorial calendars, are still in development. We’ll have more Kapost as it continues to build out its featureset.
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Authors: Jason Kincaid