Switch to using a slug field for News items URLs. #2144
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As discussed in #2143, we currently use sequential IDs for the path of news items. For example:
This pull request switches from IDs to a unique, user-defined slug. All existing news items will be assigned their id as the slug, so paths will remain the same. For example https://physionet.org/news/post/1 will continue to resolve after the migration.
In future work, we might want to: