Publish2 News Exchange Wins Knight-Batten Award
Less than two months after launching Publish2 News Exchange, we’ve won a Knight-Batten Award! News Exchange enables newspapers to create newswires for print and the Web by combining content sharing...
View ArticleNow Available in Publish2 News Exchange: ProPublica, GlobalPost, Texas...
We’re excited to announce the addition of four high-quality news sources to Publish2 News Exchange. ProPublica, GlobalPost, Texas Tribune, and Texas Watchdog have created their newswires in Publish2′s...
View ArticleDemotix Partners with Publish2 News Exchange on Independent News Photo...
We’re excited to announce that Demotix, the award-winning open photo agency for independent journalists, will begin offering content via Publish2 News Exchange when we launch photo support later this...
View ArticleClay Shirky’s right that syndication’s getting disrupted — but not in the...
In my contribution to the Nieman Journalism Lab’s 2011 Prediction series, I agree with Clay Shirky’s prediction about the disruption of the traditional news syndication model, but disagree (yes, I...
View ArticleContent (Re)Packaging: Curation and Syndication in the Age of Unbundled...
I’m going to be speaking at the American Press Institute seminar on Creating the Digital User Experience, May 12 – May 13, 2011. Here’s my session on “Content (Re)Packaging: Curation and Syndication in...
View ArticlePublish2 Update: Network Growth and New Business Model
Many people have reached out to us recently and asked, “How’s Publish2 doing? You guys have been very quiet for the last few months.” That’s because we’ve had our heads down rolling out the full...
View ArticleHow to Make It Easy for Newspapers to Link on the Web
There has been a great deal of debate in the last few days about why mainstream news organizations in general and newspapers in particular don’t link out to sources from their stories. Many...
View ArticleSolving Big Universal Problems
The best that any company can hope for is to find a big, universal problem that nobody else has solved. It seems we’ve hit upon that problem, based on the reaction to “How to Make It Easy for Newsrooms...
View ArticleThe Real Cost of Newsroom Inefficiency
How many times today did someone in your newsroom copy and paste content from one system to another? Or move content by logging into multiple systems or emailing files around to editors? How much time...
View ArticleAnnouncing Publish2 News App: White Label HTML5 Tablet App for Publishers
We’re excited to announce the upcoming launch of Publish2 News App, a white label HTML5 tablet app for publishers. We’re following the path blazed by the Financial Times’s HTML5 app, with all the...
View ArticleLegacy Editorial Systems and CMSs Are Killing the News Industry’s Digital...
The news industry’s digital transformation is being thwarted and outright threatened by legacy editorial and content management systems that were not designed to build a bridge from old to new. Here...
View ArticleOld Dogs New Tricks and Crappy Editorial Systems
”You can’t fix what you won’t admit is wrong.” says Digital First Media CEO Jon Paton of the newspaper industry. That much needed tough love applies to the newspaper industry’s struggle with legacy...
View ArticleThe Chronicle Launches on Publish2′s HTML5 Tablet App
We’re excited to announce that The Chronicle has launched on Publish2’s HTML5 Tablet App. Check it out on an iPad: Open app.chronline.com in the Safari browser on an iPad, then follow the prompt to...
View ArticleHow to Get 100% of Local Businesses to Advertise Online: Announcing...
Today, less than 10% of local businesses advertise online. But what if you could get almost 100% of local merchants to advertise online? That’s the holy grail that everyone is focused on. Local media...
View ArticlePublish2′s BreakingPromos Adds Facebook Support for Businesses
We’re excited to announce that local businesses can now use their Facebook accounts to log into BreakingPromos and reach new customers on local news sites while simultaneously reaching their followers...
View ArticleCompeting for the Holy Grail of Local Online Advertising
“Local is huge, it’s the holy grail of the Internet.” - Sheryl Sandberg, COO, Facebook, on first earnings call Competing for the “holy grail of local online advertising” are: local newspapers, local TV...
View ArticlePublish2 Update: Network Growth and New Business Model
Many people have reached out to us recently and asked, “How’s Publish2 doing? You guys have been very quiet for the last few months.” That’s because we’ve had our heads down rolling out the full...
View ArticleClosing the NPR API Gap
At Publish2, we’re working with some of the largest, most innovative and forward-looking public media organizations. We’re helping them dramatically extend their reach and grow their membership...
View ArticlePublish2 Announces Free Content Platform for Public Media
Public Media has a vision to bring all of their content onto one common platform, to enable an open exchange and create a powerful network. At Publish2, we believe this is a really smart idea! So...
View ArticleLegacy Newspaper Editorial Systems Really Are Killing the Industry
The newspaper industry has staked its future on failed legacy newspaper editorial systems that require “tremendous effort and patience“. GateHouse Media could not implement this old desktop software...
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