Publish2 raises a round, aims to bring more journalists to the web
In recent years, many journalists (including myself) have experimented with web services intended to help journalism go online, and those efforts have failed.
We’d hoped that things like better newsroom software or local community sites would allow quality reporting to run efficiently and survive as web businesses. But these efforts were often top-down. Newsroom software tried to mirror the needs of the traditional newsroom, for example.
But newsroom software hasn’t thrived. Rather, the more successful software has… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading