Utopía is an open source platform for community based newsrooms to manage their subscriptions
Features
CRM
Customer Relationship Management tool for newsrooms based on relationships with readers.
CMS
Content Management System tool that multiple teams in a newsroom can use to manage publishing.
Subscriptions
Allows creation of print and digital subscriptions, add different payment methods, collect statistics and maintain relationships with readers.
Paywall
Paywall is a way to control access to content and encourage subscriptions.
SEO
Website optimized to be search engine friendly. Features like semantic headings, structured data (Schema and Open Graph), tags, AMP, accessibility, performance, and more.
Community
Spaces for interaction between readers can be created in order to empower connections, so that the community of people who support your project is part of it.
Why choose Utopía
Utopía offers a technological package that sustains the media practice by paid subscriptions or memberships, a content management model supported by an open knowledge community, tools for moderating participation of the audience, with the purpose of co-creating journalism with the community.
A project by la diaria
From la diaria we want to share with other media organizations our management experience and the tools developed with the help of our technical team. We expect to do so by releasing the project as free software with the goal of collaborating with other media companies and co-creating new solutions.
We are sharing 15 years of experience in managing a media cooperative, which is close to being 100% supported by our community.
Supported by
Utopía was one of the selected projects by Google News Initiative in Latin America to receive support from the Innovation Challenge Fund.
Utopía has the support of the Agencia Nacional de Investigación e Innovación del Uruguay through their Innovation Implementation program.
