WordPress.com parent Automattic has announced a new publishing platform for news sites, designed to help small to medium-sized publications generate more revenue.
The initiative, which is called , is launching in partnership with and . Interestingly, Newspack is backed by $2.4 million in funding from some big names, including Google, through the Google News Initiative that — Google actually contributed half the funds. Other contributors include the Lenfest Institute for Journalism ($400,000), ConsenSys ($350,000), and the John
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