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Joining Publish2: Ryan Sholin, Greg Linch and Howard Weaver

April 23rd, 2009 · 3 Comments

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 [...]

Announcing Digital Sunlight: Publish2’s Platform for Collaborative Journalism

February 17th, 2009 · No Comments

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 [...]

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

February 16th, 2009 · No Comments

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 [...]

Publish2 Partners with PR Newswire for Journalists

February 6th, 2009 · No Comments

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. [...]

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

January 15th, 2009 · No Comments

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 [...]

One Week Left To Enter The “I Am The Future Of Journalism” Contest

December 24th, 2008 · No Comments

There’s one week left to submit an entry to the “I Am The Future Of Journalism” Contest. The deadline is December 30.
We’ve gotten some great entries by journalists who are thinking creatively, passionately, and positively about the future. You can show your support for them by helping to rate the entries (some examples embedded below):

Announcing the “I Am The Future Of Journalism” Contest

December 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

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 — [...]

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

October 29th, 2008 · 5 Comments

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 [...]

Publish2: The Web’s Newswire

September 3rd, 2008 · 6 Comments

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 Gets Funded By Velocity Interactive Group

March 31st, 2008 · 23 Comments

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 [...]

Introducing Publish2: Networked News

August 14th, 2007 · 50 Comments

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 [...]