Case Study: U.S. News & World Report achieves a modernized digital newsroom and faster, more efficient publishing with Brightspot

Eliminating editorial inefficiencies and enhancing collaboration for a modernized digital newsroom

U.S. News & World Report faced a legacy CMS that slowed publishing and forced editors into workarounds as the publisher scaled its digital presence. To consolidate operations, streamline workflows, and integrate with its homegrown system without losing traffic or revenue, U.S. News selected Brightspot’s modern CMS to modernize its newsroom and reduce editorial inefficiencies.

Brightspot implemented a unified CMS with customizable workflows, taxonomy management, a built‑in digital asset manager, live preview and syndication tools, and seamless integration into the existing tech stack. In just five months from proof of concept to launch Brightspot migrated 180K articles and delivered a platform supporting ~40M monthly unique visitors and 400+ contributors, improving editorial efficiency, faster publishing, mobile optimization, and new syndication revenue opportunities.

U.S. News & World Report

Yingjie Shu

Senior Vice President of Technology