Publish2 to network journalists
Publish2 is a new startup, soon to go into beta, that plans to network journalists within and across news organizations.
While details are still somewhat vague (see its screed, here), the New York-based startup says it trying to overhaul how journalists process information on the web.
It says it will combine standard web tools such as social bookmarking, social news ranking and online publishing so that a newsroom of any size or type can do a better job of internally collecting, organizing and publishing. What’s more, the software will be web-based so that the most popular information from across news organizations can be shared. It will use Drupal’s open source software for creating content management systems.
The company will offer its services to more than just newsrooms in order to “put journalists at the center of news aggregation on the web — it wants to include “independent ‘news bloggers,’ ‘citizen’ journalists, student journalists, and anyone else who defines themselves as a type of journalist.
I spent years working on a similar project. I’m intrigued by Publish2, so will be tracking it closely.
I’m also interested in how the company plans to make money.
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About the Author, Eric Eldon
Eric currently covers digital media technology and business news, especially what's happening on social networks and their platforms. He also writes and edits stories about venture capital, and lots of other stuff, too. He started at VentureBeat in the spring of 2007, half a year or so after Matt Marshall left his reporting job at the San Jose Mercury News to found the site. Eric previously cofounded a startup called Writewith, that was building editorial software for newspapers and other groups of writers. The startup didn't work out, but he learned a lot.
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