WordPress has seen off another competitor. The Chorus CMS is being shut down. Vox Media had developed Chorus for its own websites. Vox owns a ton of news and culture properties including Vox, New York Magazine, The Verge, The Cut,…
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…
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…