News for Digital Journalists

August 09, 2010

Publish2 Offers News Co-op Tool to Help Create Wire Service-Like Partnerships

Publish2 has released a new tool that enables newsrooms to create co-ops for content sharing - a key add-on to Publish2’s recently launched News Exchange platform, a do-it-yourself system for newspapers and other publishers to distribute news by automatically exporting shared content to their print publishing systems.

The new “co-ops” aim to let one news organization seamlessly allow others to republish content from its Publish2 newswires.

According to Ryan Sholin, director of news innovation at publish2.com, newspapers across a state could create a co-op to automatically share local news of wider interest, effectively creating a state wire.

The same tool could be used for national sports co-ops or national breaking news co-ops, he added. It’s also easy to imagine hyperlocal news organizations creating a co-op to share news around their community to challenge (or partner with) metros, either on print or online fronts.

Meanwhile, Publish2 has seen a spate of news services starting up, announcing July 26 that ProPublica, GlobalPost, Texas Tribune, and Texas Watchdog have created their own news wires using the Publish2 platform.

On Aug. 3, Publish2 also announced that photo agency Demotix will publish images on the platform (Neiman Journalism lab has more on the new partnership).