The concept of what a CMS is still pretty vague for many in the journalism industry...Nieman Lab recently published a piece [1] about the New York Times first blog (which is now shutting down)...reading it gives you a good sense of how just having a WordPress blog changed the top-down hierarchy of how they did stories and published on the web. Even today, when you read the retrospective, it seems that many of the editors and reporters still don't really know what a blog or CMS is...there's even a couple quotes by an editor who says now that they've moved off of WordPress, they're able to create more "beautiful" articles than ever before.

[1] http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/11/how-one-blog-helped-spark-t...