Chinmaya Mohanta, Debendra Prasad Samal, Prof. Smruti Smaraki Sarangi 03 06 The rapid expansion of digital media has created an urgent need for purposebuilt enterprisegrade content management platforms tailored specifically to newsroom operations This paper presents Prime Pulse a fully functional webbased news publishing portal that addresses the fragmentation and workflow inefficiencies prevalent in contemporary digital journalism ecosystems The platform integrates a complete editorial lifecycle management system encompassing article creation multilevel approval workflows breaking news designation scheduled publishing and reader engagement management into a single unified system Prime Pulse is built on a classic LAMP stack PHP Apache MySQL augmented with a granular RoleBased Access Control RBAC system governing four user roles Administrator Editor Reporter and Moderator each with dedicated dashboards and middlewareenforced permission controls A comprehensive analytics module delivers newsroomspecific performance metrics including category performance perreporter productivity rankings peak traffic hour analysis and breaking news versus regular news comparison Security mechanisms include CSRF token protection bcryptcompatible password hashing SQL injection prevention via prepared statements MIMEtype file validation and rate limiting A newsletter broadcasting system automatically notifies subscribers upon article publication without dependency on thirdparty services Comprehensive testing across fifteen functional security and compatibility dimensions validates the platforms correctness robustness and readiness for production newsroom deployment The project demonstrates that a featurerich enterprisequality news content management system can be constructed entirely using opensource technologies at minimal operational cost Copyright (c) Journal of Science Engineering Technology and Management Science. All rights reserved 2026