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…
Phew! 2020 is over. That was intense. 2020 was a difficult personal year for many of our team, with family members passing away, losing jobs, and enduring hard times. Fortunately, the PublishPress business was a bright spot this year. Our team (Anderson, Kevin, Valentin, and myself) rallied together. And our customers were great – I…
We often hear about old newspaper companies that are struggling. But there’s a good chance that 2020 was a turning point for successful new journalists. If you look carefully, we’re seeing many fresh, independent media projects. The business model for these new projects is different. They are ditching corporate ownership in favor of a model…
Meredith Corporation is a huge media group that owns magazines, television stations, websites, and radio stations. You have almost certainly heard of many of their brands including People, Entertainment Weekly, Travel and Leisure, and Martha Stewart Living. They recently finished migrating millions of articles and images into a company-wide CMS based in WordPress. The company…
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.
The Knight Foundation is a charitable organization with deep roots in the news world. The foundation was started by two brothers, James and John Knight. They were part of Knight-Ridder, which was one of the largest newspaper chains in the US. The Knight Foundation now invests heavily in supporting journalism. They’ve just awarded grants worth…
Here at PublishPress, we’re very focused on the publishing experience in WordPress. In recent weeks, there’s been very interesting news for WordPress publishers with the launch of Newspack. This is a project from Automattic (the owners of WordPress.com, but not WordPress.org) that aims to help small newspapers run their sites on WordPress.
Here at PublishPress, we’re very focused on the publishing experience in WordPress. One of the key players in the WordPress publishing ecosystem is Newspack. Newspack is a project from Automattic (the owners of WordPress.com, but not WordPress.org) that aims to help small newspapers run their sites on WordPress. Here’s the official description of Newspack: