Django was made for newspaper sites, not just a single newspaper (publishing) site, but for making entire sites quickly. They generally had a staff that needed to start pushing content into the system ASAP, even before the public version of the site might be done. This is still clearly reflected in Django as it has a very complete user-friendly admin interface for the staff to begin entering content.

Django also has the concept of 'apps', which are just directories inside a Django project that do a specific function for the site. This reflects the original creators needs to quickly share components of a site with other sites they made. For example, quickly adding comments, or reviews, to another Django site.