In my experience, no. We just launched our second FLEX site this morning and I know all of the related content(ie. more info, pull quotes, if you go, etc) seemed to want to go to the bottom of the body copy. TownNews' team had to fix that for us.

I think the closes thing would be to change the asset's presentation mode to "long-form" but that would just remove the right rail entirely. It would also make the body copy span the full width of the page.

Has this been placed on the roadmap? We had someone complain and it reminded me to check on the progress.

That only works if multiple assets are selected as top story assets. Here's an example of what I'm talking about.

So each block would know the other assets already appear on the page.

You mentioned assets showing up twice on a page if they're going to two different blocks. Could there actually be a feature to prevent that? I'm currently trying to redesign the above-the-scroll part of our home page. I want to have a "top stories" block with some local news and local sports but then have a secondary block for local news and a secondary block for local sports that would list stories NOT displayed in the "top stories" block. So basically no duplicated assets on the home page.

I'm not as concerned with the interior pages because they're typically much more streamlined.

Adobe Premiere 2017. I used to adore Final Cut but the machines here won't run the version I used to use because the version is too outdated. But I've gotten used to Premiere. The hardest thing to do is get video from Windows and Android phones, especially since we use Macs.

I think 10 or so years ago there was a big push to throw money into high end video equipment and webcasts but it never really saw good returns. We had a webcast here, which is how I got the photographer/videographer job. It looked great on paper but the viewers were never there. Today we do video from time to time but it's shot from iPhones and lightly edited.

I think you definitely want to have a Youtube channel set up for your publication if for no other reason than in the event of huge news that may happen. For instance last October when Hurricane Matthew hit it was right off our coast. We had our reporters and photographer out as long as they could safely work. The videos taken over the course of a few days were viewed 800,000+ times.

I've wanted this for quite a while now.

That's awesome! I'll look into it. We've been in a branding flip-flop for the past six months. So I'm going to wait until the company has decided which way to go with the website before I get support to change anything else. We already changed our URL and will likely have to change it back.

I agree with Robert and Kevin. A simple smiley face would be a nice addition.

If by leaked you mean went online accidentally, I don't think there's a way a story can be altered without leaving a trace of who altered it.