A few weeks ago, I wrote that something new is growing in US journalism. It’s still fragile, and hard to define, but I stand by this quote: I think we’ll look back on 2020 to 2022 as the start of…
I share a lot of details about start-ups here at KinshiPress, 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…
One of the reasons I started KinshiPress 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…
At the beginning of 2022, Tyler Channel published a short two minute video to Twitter. The video was elegantly done and introduced The Welch News, a small newspaper in West Virginia. That video led to a detailed article in WPTavern…
MediaNews Group is a major publishing group across the United States. They own over 100 newspapers and 200 other publications. Their newspapers reach from California (Orange Country Register and Marin Independent Journal) to Florida (Orlando Sentinel and Sun Sentinel). They’re…
I’ve talked often about the work of INN (Institute for Nonprofit News) regularly here on KinshiPress. INN is a fascinating organization because they’re building a community of innovative publishers including many start-ups. And those publishers almost all use WordPress. In…
A few weeks ago, I spoke on the Scale podcast with Stewart Ritchie. One of things we discussed was that WordPress-based companies are building an infrastructure to help publishers to succeed. Even three or four years ago, that infrastructure did…
Last year, we covered Block Club Chicago, which is a WordPress-based news start-up. They’ve now reached their 5th birthday and have one of the most inspiring stories in new U.S. journalism. I dug into the Block Club Chicago story this…
This week a small story led me to discover a big story about WordPress’ dominance in online publishing. The small story was about the launch of “Flow”, a new brand that’s part of She Media. First, I went to the…
We recently covered Block Club Chicago which was is built in partnership with the “Lede” platform from Alley Interactive. We’ve previously covered another Lede site called “Defector”. Lede is one of several new WordPress publishing platforms including Newspack, PaywallProject, and…