Earlier this year, I wrote about Mississippi Today which is a success story for non-profit newsrooms. This week, they’ve launched a new sister organization in New Orleans called Verite. Both Verite and Mississippi Today are going to be part of a network of mission-driven, local news organizations called “Deep South Today”. I’ve been blogging about…
For five years now, the Institute for Nonprofit News has produce an annual report on the nonprofit news sector. Their 2022 report shows that independent local news is growing strongly. Here are 3 key points from the report: Since 2017, more than 135 nonprofit news outlets have launched. The number of newsrooms in the INN Network…
One of the most common requests we’ve had from users of the PublishPress Authors plugin is the ability to show all your authors on one page. This is now possible with the authors_list shortcode. The authors_list shortcode comes with a variety of different views. In this guide, I’ll introduce you to the display options and…
miniOrange provides a very wide range of identity management solutions for enterprise companies. The company was founded in 2012 in India and is now headquartered in New York with around 200 employees. One service that MiniOrange provides is Single Sign-On (SSO) integration with WordPress sites. RoleUp is an alternative option if you need Single Sign-On…
The PublishPress Blocks plugin is growing in a new direction. The latest release of PublishPress Blocks (version 2.14) introduces a feature called “Block Controls“. This will give you the ability to control who sees your blocks and when they display. This first “Block Controls” setting allows you to schedule blocks to publish and unpublish. Every…
Mark Root-Wiley builds WordPress websites for nonprofits. He’s also a member of the Post Status community for WordPress professionals. In the Post Status community, Mark recently shared some interesting changes he had seen in Google’s popular Site Kit plugin for WordPress. Apparently Google is about to launch a new “Thank With Google” payments option for…
Blake Bertuccelli runs a WordPress agency called Decubing, based out of New Orleans. Blake recently announced that his agency will be donating 11% of their revenue to organizations that support independent journalism. The first donation was to the Prison Journalism Project (PJP). The PJP migrated to Newspack in October 2021. You can click here to read…
The Institute for Nonprofit News has just published interviews with 3 WordPress-based sites that cover LGBTQ issues. Click here to read the interviews. Here’s a list the three sites. They’re all non-profits, and a couple of these launched very recently. Yes Magazine: This is the most established publisher of the three. Their focus Explanatory journalism…
WordPress-powered publisher Rappler is in the headlines itself this week as it fights to stay online. The Philippine government has ordered the site to shut down. Rappler is a Philippine news website founded by Filipino journalists including Maria Ressa who won the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. Rappler comes from the root words “rap” (to discuss)…
The Patagonia Regional Times is a non-profit publisher that focuses on the Arizona communities of Canelo, Elgin, Patagonia and Sonoita in Santa Cruz County. They have been publishing printed and digital newsletters on a monthly schedule since 2009. Their motto is “If we don’t tell these local stories, who will?” and have just launched a…