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 benefits of bypassing app stores: cross-platform, publisher control of user data, no need to share revenue, always the most up-to-date version. Unlike [...]

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 last fall. And… we’ve successfully launched our business [...]

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 of “content packagers” — social media (Facebook, [...]

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 News Exchange, but they will now [...]

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 platform for sharing and distributing journalism in print and across the Web. ProPublica is a Pulitzer-winning nonprofit news organization specializing in investigative journalism on topics including the [...]

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 networks with alternative newswire sources. “This is an ambitious concept that could be genuinely disruptive of existing distribution networks,” the judges said in the announcement Monday morning. [...]

This week at TechCrunch Disrupt, Publish2 CEO Scott Karp announced the launch of Publish2 News Exchange. Here’s an overview of some of the first reactions to what we like to call P2X: Publish2′s News Exchange Aims to Help News Outlets Cut Ties to AP Poynter | June 1, 2010 “If his service does what he [...]

Today, at TechCrunch Disrupt, we’re announcing the launch of Publish2 News Exchange, a platform aimed at disrupting the Associated Press monopoly over content distribution to newspapers. With Publish2 News Exchange, newspapers can replace the AP’s obsolete cooperative with direct content sharing and replace the AP’s commodity content with both free, high-quality content from the Web [...]

Today, we’re excited to announce Publish2 News Exchange: Simply put, Publish2 News Exchange is the easiest way to share and distribute content for print and Web publishing. The next evolution of the newswire will be powered by scalable content sharing networks and a platform that makes it simple to syndicate the best content from across [...]

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. Its link publishing widgets and easy-to-use [...]

We’re proud to announce that Publish2 has acquired Wired Journalists. In January 2008, Howard Owens, Zac Echola, and myself, Ryan Sholin, launched a social network with self-motivated, eager-to-learn reporters, editors, executives, students and faculty in mind. Wired Journalists was born with the mission of connecting the knowledgeable, expert innovators in online news with journalists of [...]

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 readers.  Watching a Twitter #hashtag for posts [...]

I’m pleased to announce the first official release of a project I’ve been working on for a while: a Publish2 plugin for WordPress, the popular Web publishing platform. It lets you to do more with your Publish2 links by extending our collaborative journalism platform to your WordPress blog. The first feature, Link Assist, allows you [...]

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 Producer. Howard Weaver has joined [...]

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 set that will allow citizens [...]

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 Invite, Earn, and Learn incentive program. And it’s [...]

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 resources that help them with their reporting. [...]

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 Publish2. But what about when you’re not [...]

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 in journalism due to shrinking supply [...]

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 save those links — both for [...]

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 based on a number [...]

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 about on the Publishing 2.0 [...]

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 is SO ripe for Publish2 — but [...]