We’re turning the spotlight on three news sources in Publish2 News Exchange. These are online-only news organizations distributing their stories for newspapers to run in print — free in exchange for attribution. First, Politics Daily: Here’s what Melinda Henneberger, Editor-in-Chief, says about Politics Daily’s reporting style: “What PoliticsDaily.com offers is effectively counter-programming; instead of attempting [...]

With all the discussion of the skill set and mindset necessary for journalists today – both of which are important — we need to also consider a deeper question about mindset: how to go about rethinking our thinking. One key area of exploration is computational thinking, through which we can tie the practice of journalism to the digital technology [...]

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 [...]

The link journalism meme seems to have legs, based on the number of smart people who picked it up. Now it’s time to kick it up a notch, with the concept of NETWORKED link journalism, which can give journalists, collectively, the power of Digg and Google to direct huge amounts of traffic on the web.

How long does it take to launch an innovative new feature on a newspaper site? About 48 hours — that’s the standard set by innovative editors like Jack Lail at Knoxnews.com, Tom Meagher at Herald News, and Mark Briggs at Thenewstribune.com.

Media companies are engaged in the hard work of transitioning from an analogue media world to a digital media world — without going out of business in the process. But how are journalists making this transition — without losing their jobs in the process? At Publish2, we’ve been thinking a lot about the issue of [...]