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.
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!
The Times is nearly 250 years old and is one of the most famous newspapers in the UK. It has a sister paper called The Sunday Times which publishes only once per week. In recent years, The Times has focused on digital growth and their audience on TheTimes.co.uk is now four times greater than their…
I’ve just come across a documentary about a WordPress-powered newspaper in Iowa. The movie is called “Storm Lake” and was filmed in Storm Lake, Iowa. Check out the IMDB listing. The movie’s synopsis is, “Art Cullen and his family and colleagues at Iowa’s Storm Lake Times, fight-at the local level-for the survival of their biweekly…
Normally old newspapers try to start websites. This story goes in the opposite direction. The Stroud Times is a U.K.-based WordPress site started in 2020 and is now expanding to a physical version: “Readers are fed up with doom and gloom stories, we pride ourselves in being the beacon for positive news and engaging human interest…
If you’re in the New York area, you may have heard of Schneps Media or at least you’ve seen their publications. Schneps run dozens of local newspapers and they’re standardized their digital versions on WordPress. Their sites focus on specific areas and communities in New York. They cover local neighborhood news, Spanish-language groups, LGBQT issues,…
l love to see stories like this: RACER magazine just turned 30 years old. They cover all kinds of motorsports. It’s twice as old as WordPress, but it’s still going strong … thanks to WordPress. This article tells the story of RACER on its 30th birthday. You can click here to view the inaugural May…