Case Study: ZEIT ONLINE enhances live news coverage with Sourcefabric Live Blog

ZEIT ONLINE - Customer Case Study

ZEIT ONLINE, one of Germany's largest news organizations, engaged vendor Sourcefabric to enhance their Live Blog software. The challenge arose from ZEIT ONLINE's comprehensive website redesign, which required their existing live blogging tool to be better integrated into the new layout. Additionally, their editors needed new features, including a visual way to indicate active and inactive blogs and a better method to display live score updates for events.

Sourcefabric implemented a solution featuring a newly customized Live Blog theme for seamless visual integration, a visual indicator for active and closed blogs, and a new "scorecard" post type for numeric data like sports scores. As a result, ZEIT ONLINE now provides a more professional and seamless live blogging experience for its readers and editors, solidifying the tool as an essential component for covering elections, sports, and breaking news. Sourcefabric's updates ensured the newsdesk's workflow remained uninterrupted while significantly improving the reader's experience.

ZEIT ONLINE

Johannes Neukamm

Editorial Research and Development Desk