In September last year, I wrote about the launch of Press Forward and how they had promised to invest $500 million in local news organizations over the next five years. It has been a year now, and that money is starting to flow to WordPress publishers.
Chris Hardie is a software engineer with a deep interest in journalism. Chris worked for Automattic for five years and recently completed a master’s degree in journalism. Back in 2022, he took over running Western Wayne News in Wayne County, Indiana.
If you run a newspaper or magazine site, there may be a lot of activity with authors, editors, and also ordinary users. You may even have multiple sites to run. It’s important for publishers to have an accurate way to track who is making changes on their sites. And it’s vital to know what has…
This is a really interesting article on the free press in Venezuela: “Collaboration helps keep independent journalism alive in Venezuela“. Almost all the independent news outlets trying to report on the government use WordPress including El Pitazo, Efecto Cocuyo, Runrun.es, Cazadores de Fake News, and TalCual. These websites covered the recent Venezuelan elections despite a fierce…
Back in 2019, Automattic acquired Tumblr for $3 million. That was a huge discount on the $1 billion that Yahoo paid only six years before. However, the last few years have not been smooth for Automattic. Last November, it emerged that Automattic was reducing it’s efforts to overhaul Tumblr:
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…
The Onion has been one of the best newspapers in the USA for many years now. It launched as a print publication in 1988 and moved online in 1996. That means they’ve had a website for nearly 30 years. And finally that website is on WordPress!
Every year, the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN) carries out a detailed survey of their members. There’s a lot of ways to dig into this data, but I’d like to highlight this post by Emily Roseman who concentrates on how AI is being used in these newsrooms.
One of our key goals for this year is to help you replace expensive SaaS services. Why use Trello, ClickUp, Notion, or other products when you already have WordPress? We took a big step towards that goal with the latest update of PublishPress Planner. This version of the PublishPress Planner has new features and a…
Google’s E-E-A-T stands for Expertise, Experience, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness. It’s a concept used by Google’s search team to evaluate the quality and credibility of a website’s content. If you have a WordPress website, E-E-A-T is going to have some influence on where you appear in Google’s search results. In this post, I’ll explain what E-E-A-T…