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 in-browser [...]

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 all stripes [...]

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 related to [...]

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 to [...]

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 our Board of [...]

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 reading [...]

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 of [...]

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 blog [...]

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 most [...]