Publish2 is a free online editorial platform for journalists, editors, and newsrooms.

Helping journalists work smarter

Journalists can use Publish2 to bookmark important, potentially useful stories from any web source. They can add tags to keep the bookmarks organized by story or topic.

These bookmarks are always one click away — accessible from any computer — making journalists more efficient and organized as they work. Journalists can also use Publish2 to discover stories that inform their reporting.

Creating high-quality content for readers

Editors can curate journalist bookmarks to create feeds of headlines on any topic or theme. These feeds can easily be published on news organization website, where they’ll point readers to valuable web content hand-selected by knowledgeable journalists.

Journalists can also add an explanation of why a story is interesting, making the headline feed more useful for readers. It’s an easy way to create more high-quality web content.

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Journalist profiles

Publish2 also gives journalists an online profile, where they can link to their best reporting and show off their bookmarks. So readers can follow what smart journalists are writing and what they’re reading.

News organizations can link to or publish these profiles on their websites to showcase their journalists.

Networked newsrooms

Newsrooms can share bookmarks and help each other find items for their headline feeds. Journalist can help each other find useful information for their reporting.

Publish2 can also rank news based on the number of journalists who bookmark a story. The more journalists bookmark a story, the higher it rises in the ranking. So the “wisdom of the crowd” result reflects the wisdom of trained news professionals, rather than the wisdom of amateurs or computer algorithms.

If you are an editor or reporter, you can register for the Publish2 Beta.

To get started using Publish2 on your site, contact Scott Karp at scott.karp at publish2 dot com