WPBizDev is a membership site aimed at WordPress business owners. They’ve just published a very solid article by Lawrence Ladomery called “Local news publishing – an opportunity for WordPress product businesses?“ Lawrence highlights something we often talk about: almost the entire local news ecosystem runs on WordPress. He pulls data from The State of Local…
There are a ton of collaborations happening between smaller publishers at the moment. Two or three journalists don’t have the resources to tackle big topics, but they can when they work on stories together. I find out about many of these stories from the “Center for Cooperative Media” based at Montclair State University in New…
I share a lot of details about start-ups here at PublishPress, but here’s a very different angle on WordPress publishing. The Center for Cooperative Media does a lot of work to support publishers and they have just published an interview with Andrew Ramsammy about “Word in Black”. Word in Black is a collaborative effort between…
One of the reasons I started PublishPress is I believe there’s an emerging ecosystem of exciting publishing start-ups. Many of these publishers started around 2020, are non-profit or owned by the journalists, and almost all use WordPress. A new ecosystem must have supporting organizations, and for these emerging publishers, few are more supportive than INN…
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…
Today, I’m delighted to announce that we’ve adopted the “Organize Series” plugin and extensions. “Organize Series” is a plugin that allows you to group content together into a series. This is ideal for magazines, newspapers, short-story writers, teachers, comic artists, or anyone who writes multiple posts on the same topic. The plugin aligns perfectly with…
We all know that local newspapers are in trouble. At least 25% of US papers have closed in the last 15 years. But there are also positive signs: if you look carefully, we’re seeing many fresh, independent media projects. These new projects are innovative, diverse, making money and overwhelmingly using WordPress. That last point really…
Welcome to another post in this series which focuses on the very best publishers using WordPress. We’re not always looking for household brand names. We’re also searching for publishers who are building new, brave and innovative platforms. That description perfectly describes MountainStateSpotlight.org which publishes news for West Virginia.