The engine

Salamandra

The engine behind every page your editors touch.

Built by journalists, for the way newsrooms actually work. Salamandra is the content-management system at the heart of every site we build – the tool your editors live in, all day, every day.

Salamandra – homepage-editing interface, mid-action
01The strengths
i.

Reshape the homepage in seconds

Your front page is your most valuable real estate, and it changes by the hour. Salamandra lets your editors rebuild it on the fly – promote the breaking story, demote the one that's cooled, rearrange the whole layout for a major event – with no developer, no deploy, no waiting.

ii.

Built for the speed of a newsroom

Stories go from draft to live in a click. The interface keeps up with editors working under deadline – never the other way around.

iii.

Designed for editors, not engineers

No manuals, no week-long training. Salamandra was built by people who've run newsrooms, for people who run newsrooms. If you can edit a story, you can run the site.

iv.

One system, many editions

Run multiple publications, languages, or editions from a single platform – each with its own team, its own look, its own homepage logic. Manage them together, or keep them entirely apart.

v.

Reliability you don't have to think about

Salamandra runs the homepages of some of the busiest news sites in the world, through breaking-news traffic spikes and sustained high load. It stays up, so your editors can keep working.

02Why we built it

The story should shape the page – not the other way around.

When we first built Salamandra, most homepages were nearly static; editors had to call a developer to change anything that mattered. We thought that was backwards.

The people who understand the story should be the ones controlling how it's presented. So we built a CMS that put that control in their hands – and we've been refining it ever since.

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