The Tennessee Journalist (TNJN.com) is the student-operated news web site of the School of Journalism and Electronic Media at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
The site is powered by Ochs, a content management system built on the Django framework. It was originally developed in the fall of 2006 by Staci Baird and Johnny Dobbins.
Ochs is owned by the University of Tennessee and is being licensed for use by journalism programs and student media organizations on other campuses under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. You must have specific permission to use Ochs.
Ochs is a robust, elegant, easy-to-learn and easy-to-use CMS that allows great flexibility for the user to upload a variety of content to a server and on to a web site. One of the goals of the Intercollegiate Online News Network is to license Ochs to as many journalism programs and student news organizations as possible.
You can learn more about how Ochs works at this page on JPROF.com.
The name Ochs honors Adolph Ochs, who was born in Cincinnati in 1858, but his family moved to Knoxville because of its Southern sympathies. He worked as a delivery boy and printer's devil for the Knoxville Chronicle and bought the Chattanooga Times in 1878. In 1896 he risked his entire fortunate and purchased the failing New York Times. He remade it into one of the nation's premier newspapers, a position it continues to hold today. Ochs died in 1935.
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