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 a new journalism movement in the USA.
This week provided more evidence. A nonprofit trust purchased almost all the leading newspapers and many smaller newspapers in the state of Maine.
Continue reading “Almost All Maine Newspapers Sold to New Nonprofit Group”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 with Andrew Ramsammy about “Word in Black”.
Word in Black is a collaborative effort between 10 Black publishers that share a strong and historic legacy. Several of these publishers are over 100 years old!
Here are the Word in Black group members. Almost all of them rely on WordPress.
Continue reading “Word in Black is Powered by WordPress and History”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 must have supporting organizations, and for these emerging publishers, few are more supportive than INN (Institute for Nonprofit News).
Continue reading “The Institute for Nonprofit News and their WordPress Work”Over the last several years, the WordPress community has focused on the “Gutenberg” project. The aim is to modernize how WordPress works.
Phase 1 introduced a new block editor for writing posts. Phase 2 allowed you to use those blocks for building a website. And Phase 3 is about to begin!
I think Phase 3 will be absolutely fascinating for publishers.
Continue reading “What’s Going on With Gutenberg Phase 3?”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 with more background on the newspaper and Tyler’s work.
Tyler runs PaywallProject and tried to keep newspapers like The Welch News in business. He offers a more affordable alternative to Newspack, which is run by Automattic.
Continue reading “PaywallProject is a Newspack Alternative for Local News Publishers”