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[Webinar] How Okayplayer and Okayafrica, Two Renowned Culture Magazines, Transformed Their Newsroom Workflows – Publish faster with Labrador CMS
When deadlines are tight and editorial teams can’t afford downtime, how do you migrate an entire newsroom to a new CMS? Hassan Spruill will share how Okayplayer and Okayafrica moved from a restrictive publishing system to Labrador CMS, a next generation, editor-first publishing platform and what that means for visionary publications such as Okayplayer and Okayafrica.
- Date: January 29th 2026
- Time: 3pm CET – 9am EST
- Where: Online
- Cost: Free to attend
We’ll hear from:
- Hassan Spruill, Director of Audience & Product Development, Okayplayer.com and Okayafrica.com and Migration Project Manager
- David Streever, Former journalist and North American business development for Labrador CMS
What You’ll Learn:
- Insights from a complete CMS migration project
- Risk mitigation strategies for content migration and SEO preservation
- Real results: adoption timeline, immediate benefits, and measurable outcomes
Perfect for: Chief Editors, Managing Editors, Publishers, Head of Product, and Digital Strategy Directors considering a CMS migration or wanting to learn about the possibilities
AREYA MEDIA Inc. is the publisher of Okayplayer and Okayafrica.
Founded by DJ Questlove in 1999, Okayplayer is the innovative, artistic and progressive voice of black culture through the amplification of music, art, film and politics.
Okayafrica is the largest US-based website focusing on new and progressive music, art, politics, and culture from the African continent.
Aside from Areya Media, Labrador supports the following magazines and publications: Egmont, Aller Media, Korea JoongAng Daily, Albuquerque Journal, Computerworld, ELLE, Ny Teknik, The Connexion, The Barents Observer, Sermitsiaq.
David will also briefly introduce the recently finished Albuquerque Journal migration project as well as the ongoing project with The Korea JoongAng Daily.
Learn how Albuquerque Journal, New Mexico’s leading news source for over 120 years, transformed their newsroom and migrated 4 of their sites to Labrador CMS.
The Korea JoongAng Daily is an English-language daily published by the JoongAng Group, Korea’s leading media group, in association with The New York Times.
Hassan Spruill, Director of Product and Audience for Areya Media, is an award-winning sales, marketing, and product executive based in Brooklyn, NY, with 15 years of experience helping media brands, startups, and growth-stage businesses turn attention into revenue.
David Streever is Country Manager for the United States at Labrador CMS, leading growth and partnerships across North America. With a background in digital strategy for journalism, he works closely with publishers to modernize newsrooms, guide CMS migrations, and build sustainable, high-performance editorial platforms.
