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Publish2 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 content distribution service that we announced last summer and launched in beta

Content (Re)Packaging: Curation and Syndication in the Age of Unbundled Digital Content

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 the Age of Unbundled Digital Content”: Digital consumers get their news from a wide range

Demotix Partners with Publish2 News Exchange on Independent News Photo Marketplace

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 summer. Newspapers and other news organizations will not only benefit from the huge efficiency of sharing photos directly through Publish2

Publish2 Wins Gannett Foundation Award For Technical Innovation in the Service of Digital Journalism

At the Online Journalism Awards banquet this Saturday, Publish2 had the honor of receiving the first Gannett Foundation Award For Technical Innovation in the Service of Digital Journalism: Publish2’s mission and unique tools encourage the spirit of open information and effectively fosters collaboration between teams of journalists and readers.

Social Journalism: Curate the Real-Time Web

Today we’re announcing a new Publish2 feature that helps journalists curate the real-time and social web — a HUGE value creation opportunity. We call this “Social Journalism.” What’s Social Journalism? It’s what you do when you gather information in social media channels and then report it to your

Joining Publish2: Ryan Sholin, Greg Linch and Howard Weaver

Today we’re announcing three major additions to the Publish2 team — journalists whose stellar reputations speak for themselves: Ryan Sholin joins us next week as Director of News Innovation. Greg Linch is the winner of the Publish2 Future of Journalism Contest and will join us in the fall as our

Announcing Digital Sunlight: Publish2's Platform for Collaborative Journalism

Today, with the signing of the largest government stimulus program in history, Publish2 is announcing a new initiative to help newsrooms faced with declining resources continue to play the watchdog role that is so vital in this time of crisis. Digital Sunlight is our code name for a new feature

Win a free trip to ONA09 or Mediabistro Circus, or a Macbook Pro!

Want to win a free trip to New York City for Mediabistro Circus? Or a free trip to San Francisco for the Online News Association’s annual conference? Or a brand new 15-inch Macbook Pro (the best laptop you’ll ever own)? These are the grand prizes in Publish2’s

Publish2 Partners with PR Newswire for Journalists

We’ve partnered with PR Newswire to make Publish2’s link tool available to journalists using the PR Newswire for Journalists service, so that they can easily save and organize news releases. The goal of the partnership is to help journalists work with information on the web and leverage free

Import Google Reader Shared Items to Publish2: Link Journalism From Your Feed Reader

Publish2 already makes it super easy for journalists to save links to any content on the web using our “link tool” (AKA bookmarklet). Just click “Link with Publish2″ in your browser when you’re reading an article on a news site, and in a few seconds it’s saved to

Announcing the "I Am The Future Of Journalism" Contest

Publish2 is launching a contest for journalists to promote themselves as the future of journalism. We believe journalism has a bright future, and we’re betting everything on that belief. The winner of the “I Am The Future Of Journalism” Contest receives a prize that we know is increasingly valuable

Link Once, Publish Everywhere: Publish2 Launches Connection to Twitter and Delicious

Publish2 is designed for journalists and newsrooms to save links to interesting and relevant news from any source on the web, then publish those links on their sites using widgets (like the one in this blog’s sidebar) or feeds. Our browser shortcut (AKA bookmarklet) makes it super easy to

Publish2: The Web's Newswire

The web has become the vanguard of reinventing news distribution in the digital age. And while newspapers have often lagged in seizing new opportunities on the web, they have a golden opportunity to lead the charge in reinventing a foundation of the news ecosystem — the newswire. Newswires have traditionally been

Publish2 Gets Funded By Velocity Interactive Group

Publish2, the company that Robert Young and I co-founded in 2007, has been in private beta since late last year. As anyone who has followed my blogging recently probably knows, Publish2 is long on vision. We believe Publish2 is a BIG idea — a realization of everything I’ve ever written

Introducing Publish2: Networked News

It’s time to pull the curtain up on our new venture, Publish2, Inc. Publish2 is a social media company, on the eve of launching in Beta — the purpose of this announcement is to explain our vision, what we’re building, who’s involved, and why we think the time