elPeriódico is a daily newspaper in Guatemala that often reports on corruption in the country’s government. The paper’s motto translates to, “Informative scoops and rigorous and deep journalistic investigations always.” The paper was founded in 1996 by José Rubén Zamora.…
Laura Nelson gave a talk at WordCamp Europe in Porto and I’ve seen several people recommending it. The talk is “Creating a paid newsletter subscription in WordPress”. Laura shows how to create a clone of Substack using WooCommerce and the…
Over at LeakyPaywall, Peter Ericson has a great article on whether you should offer a subscription level that hides ads. His main example is Samsnytt, a WordPress-based publisher from Sweden. Samsnytt tries to upsell users to a special plan with…
Block Club Chicago is a start-up with a very specific name and mission: they focus on block-level news in Chicago neighborhoods. They launched via a Kickstarter campaign and now get 70 percent of their annual revenue directly from readers through…
Poynter has a detailed article on revenue for Civil Beat, which is a WordPress-based news startup in Hawaii. The site had initially launched with a paywall but found that it was not successful for them: Civil Beat went with a…
Racket is a really interesting start-up publisher out of Minnesota. They call themselves “writer-owned, reader-funded” which sounds like a very good pathway for a lot of news start-ups. They use WordPress with Pico for payments: Here’s their “why” behind the…
Sarah Gooding from WPTavern published an awesome article on local newspapers in West Virginia. With all the talk of big money in WordPress and big tech in general, it’s great to see people like Tyler Channell focus on real problems…
Here’s another very useful WordPress publishing podcast: “Jeremy Green of Endo Creative and Leaky Paywall shares his thoughts on “why WordPress is a great choice for content publishers seeking to monetize with digital subscriptions, plus his favorite techniques for subscriptions.”
Quartz is a WordPress publisher that is taking down their paywall. They’ve been going 10 years now and have gone through a few different business models. It looks like they’re moving to selling ads and also premium newsletters. This post…
Are you good with WordPress? Do you have journalism skills? Do you want to live in beautiful Prince Edward Sound in Alaska? We have the opportunity for you: The Cordova Times is 108 year old WordPress-based local newspaper and it…