News & Media Solutions

News organizations in Bangladesh operate under unforgiving conditions. Breaking stories draw sudden traffic. Political events, budget announcements, and sporting moments can multiply readership in seconds. Bilingual audiences expect parity between English and Bengali coverage. And modern readers want more than articles. They want video, audio, e-paper, native apps, and data-driven intelligence products, all coming out of the same newsroom.

A typical engagement starts with a familiar set of problems:

• Legacy CMS platforms that buckle during breaking news, or that slow down the editorial team with clunky admin screens.
• Bilingual publishing treated as two separate websites, with duplicated effort and inconsistent taxonomies across English and Bengali.
• Mobile readership growing faster than the desktop web, but without native apps, or with apps disconnected from the core newsroom.
• Every new product, e-paper, profile directory, scholarship portal, admission fair, treated as a brand new project rather than a new instance of a proven system.
• Editorial teams blocked by engineering bottlenecks when they need a new section, ad placement, or sponsored content format.

Over more than a decade, RSI Lab has turned the patterns behind modern news publishing into a productized stack. Each product is built to be deployed independently or as part of a connected newsroom ecosystem.

1. Newspaper Platform

A custom news and publishing CMS engineered for editorial velocity, breaking-news traffic, and bilingual content (English + Bengali). Built around modular sections, role-based editorial workflows, and performance patterns tuned for news spikes. We match the right CMS to each client based on their editorial fit, performance needs, and long-term roadmap.

Deployed for:

• The Daily Star, most recently upgraded to a new major CMS version by RSI Lab.
• The Business Standard (tbsnews.net).
• Dhaka Stream.
• NTV (ntvbd.com), a video-first news platform integrated with the broadcaster’s existing video workflow.
• Bonikbarta, Bengali-language business daily newsroom.

2. E-Paper Platform

A dedicated digital-edition platform that recreates the full print experience on any device, with page-accurate rendering, archive access, issue search, and reader navigation. Integrates with the Profile System for subscriber authentication.

Deployed for:

• The Daily Star e-Paper, with subscriber access powered by profile.thedailystar.net.
• The Business Standard e-Paper (epaper.tbsnews.net).
• Bonikbarta e-Paper (epaper.bonikbarta.net).

3. Profile System

A user account and profile platform that powers subscriber authentication, paid e-paper access, and community directories. Includes role-based accounts, profile customization, and integration hooks for downstream products such as the e-paper and the main newsroom.

Deployed for:

• The Daily Star (profile.thedailystar.net), the subscriber account system that gates access to the e-paper and other paid products.
• TBS Graduates, the alumni and early-career community directory for The Business Standard.

4. Mobile App Platform

Cross-platform mobile apps sharing a single codebase across Android and iOS, consuming the same editorial feed as the main website.

Deployed for:

• The Daily Star, available on both Google Play and the Apple App Store.
• The Business Standard, available on Google Play.
• NTV, available on Google Play.

5. Data and Intelligence Products

Dedicated microsites that package structured economic and editorial data into reader-facing products, built on the same infrastructure as the main newsroom.

Deployed for: Economic Intelligence Bangladesh (intel.tbsnews.net), for The Business Standard.

6. Campaign and Event Platforms

Purpose-built microsites for campaigns, competitions, and newsroom events, with bespoke branding but shared infrastructure and editorial control.

Deployed for: TBS Bites (visual-first short-form), TBS Scholar Hunt (multi-round scholarship competition with online submissions and jury review), and TBS Admission Fair (higher-education admissions fair platform).

Shared Foundations Across the Stack

• Bilingual publishing pipelines with synchronized English and Bengali content.
• Performance infrastructure tuned for breaking-news traffic, with aggressive caching, CDN image delivery, and automated image optimization.
• Role-based editorial workflows from breaking news to long-form multimedia features.
• Structured data and SEO engineered for organic discoverability and long-tail evergreen traffic.
• Monetization hooks for ad zones, sponsored content, and campaign microsites, managed from the same backend.
• A single engineering partner across the full stack: newsroom CMS, e-paper, profile and subscription systems, mobile apps, and data products.

RSI Lab’s News and Media stack has become the digital backbone for several of Bangladesh’s most-read publications.

• 5 leading news brands served: The Daily Star, The Business Standard, NTV, Bonikbarta, and Dhaka Stream.
• 6 distinct products in the stack: Newspaper CMS, E-Paper, Profile System, Mobile App, Data Intelligence, and Campaign/Event Platforms.
• 3 e-paper deployments: The Daily Star, The Business Standard, and Bonikbarta.
• 3 cross-platform mobile apps, with The Daily Star live on both Google Play and the Apple App Store.
• A multi-brand ecosystem around The Business Standard, including the main newsroom, e-paper, Economic Intelligence Bangladesh, TBS Graduates, TBS Bites, TBS Scholar Hunt, and TBS Admission Fair, all built on shared foundations.
• Stable performance during breaking-news spikes, budget days, and major political and sporting events.
• Editorial independence across every newsroom. Journalists publish complex, multimedia-rich stories without engineering bottlenecks.