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Digital Newsroom CMS Architecture
A newsroom content platform: editors write in a CMS, stories are enriched and published to the website, apps and syndication partners.
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What this diagram shows
- Breaking news goes live in seconds through a publish API and CDN purge
- An asset service handles photos, video and rights
- The same story feeds web, apps, AMP and partner feeds
Prompt used
Digital newsroom architecture: reporters and editors use a headless CMS with workflow states (draft, edit, legal, publish). An asset management service stores photos and video with rights information. A publishing API renders stories to the website (Next.js) and mobile apps, purges the CDN, sends push notifications for breaking news and creates syndication feeds for partners. A paywall service meters premium stories.
Mermaid code
C4Container
title Digital Newsroom Platform
Person(editor, "Reporter / Editor", "Writes and publishes")
Person(reader, "Reader", "Web and app")
System_Ext(cdn, "CDN", "Edge cache")
System_Ext(partners, "Syndication Partners", "News aggregators")
System_Boundary(news, "Newsroom Platform") {
Container(cms, "Headless CMS", "Node.js", "Stories and workflow")
Container(assets, "Asset Service", "Python", "Photos, video, rights")
Container(pub, "Publishing API", "Go", "Render and distribute")
Container(web, "News Website", "Next.js", "Articles and live blogs")
Container(push, "Push Service", "Node.js", "Breaking news alerts")
Container(paywall, "Paywall Service", "Java", "Metering and subscriptions")
ContainerDb(db, "Content DB", "PostgreSQL", "Stories and metadata")
}
Rel(editor, cms, "Writes stories")
Rel(cms, assets, "Attaches media")
Rel(cms, db, "Stores")
Rel(cms, pub, "Publishes")
Rel(pub, web, "Renders")
Rel(pub, cdn, "Purges cache")
Rel(pub, push, "Breaking news")
Rel(pub, partners, "Feeds")
Rel(reader, web, "Reads")
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