The Medill School of Journalism put out their annual “State of Local News Project” this week. Yes, local news is dying. Here’s a quote from Medill: “Since 2005, the U.S. has lost nearly 2,900 newspapers. The nation is on pace…
One of the key players in the WordPress publishing ecosystem is Newspack. They have a hosted service, but it’s also possible to download and use Newspack independently. The key Newspack plugins are all available on Github. Over at PublishPress, we’ve…
Thursday, September 7 was a very interesting day for WordPress publishing. We saw a significant investment in the space, with the promise of more to come.
There are a ton of collaborations happening between smaller publishers at the moment. Two or three journalists don’t have the resources to tackle big topics, but they can when they work on stories together. I find out about many of…
In July, WordPress saw off a strong potential competitor when the Chorus CMS shut down. In August, another competitor continues to quickly fade away. The Washington Post laid off more staff from its Arc XP platform: Last year, the Post…
Indiegraf is a 3-year old company that is having a positive impact for many WordPress publishers. They’re a WordPress hosting platform for publishers, in a similar space to Newspack, Paywall Project, Lede, and others.
Here at KinshiPress, I write about WordPress for publishers. One of the key players in the WordPress publishing ecosystem is Newspack. They have a hosted service, but it’s also possible to download and use Newspack independently. In this guide, I’ll…
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…