Andy Dehnart has run the Reality Blurred website for 25 years now. He writes about reality TV and now also about true crime TV shows. In this episode of the PublishPress podcast, Andy talks about his career as an independent reviewer, and how small publishers can still thrive in 2025. This episode features Andy, plus…
Josh Koenig is the Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Pantheon. When scheduling this interview, I thought Josh was launching a tool called “Content Publisher” to connect Google Docs to WordPress. Given Josh’s previous achievements, I should have known better. Josh’s goals with this product are far bigger and more interesting. Content Publisher is the…
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.