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 also all across the Midwest (Twin Cities Pioneer Press and Morning Sun) and the North East (Pilot Online and The Saratogian).
Continue reading “MediaNews Group is Embracing WordPress But Dropping Comments”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 fact, INN has long encouraged their members to move to WordPress, even running their own WordPress hosting service at one point.
For six years now, INN has produced an annual report on the nonprofit news sector. We covered their 2022 report here.
I write here at KinshiPress because I believe there’s an exciting new publishing movement in the US. INN has the best data to back that up.
Continue reading “Non-Profit News Publishers Are Growing Quickly in 2023”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 not exist. In 2019, it was just more difficult to launch a news start-up.
Continue reading “Something New is Growing in US Journalism”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 week and realized I had missed a related development. Block Club’s success is backed by “Lede“, a relatively new WordPress-based platform. Lede was spun out of a big WordPress agency and are helping organizations like Block Club to succeed. They are focused on being a journalism incubator and not simply a platform.
Continue reading “Block Club Chicago is Now 5 Years Old”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 main SHE Media website, where you’ll find sub-brands such as SheKnows, BlogHer, and STYLECASTER. All of these are WordPress sites.
Continue reading “The Enormous Reach of Penske Media’s WordPress Sites”