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Ghost for Journalism — Media engineering team as a service
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Martijn de Kuijper
Congrats on this launch John, amazing initiative!
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@mdekuijper Thanks so much! I honestly feel like we've been spending the last few years just building up to this point. Can't wait for what's next :)
Hi Hunters! Today we're announcing Ghost for Journalism, which is a service and a product and a service to build products! In short: We're dedicating our engineering team this year to helping build 3 new independent publications, as well as customising the features of Ghost itself to suit their use-cases. We're super excited about it :)
Ghost as a product is 3.5 years old now, and has matured tremendously since its early prototypal Kickstarter launch. This is our way of taking the next step, and looking for even bigger challenges. I wrote a bit more about the progression and the direction over in the announcement blog post: https://blog.ghost.org/journalism
Of course, happy to answer any questions -- and always super curious to meet any journalists or independent publishers who are looking for better technology to help them.
@johnonolan absolutely. I'd love to rope you in to share your story with the @EsctheCity Startup Tribe. Hit me up when you're back from vagabonding in Thailand ;)
As a backer of the Kickstarter project way back when, it's just so awesome to see this project moving forward. Well done John and team!
@tyvdh Really appreciate the kind words and all of the support, Tyler ❤️ Couldn't have gotten to this point without all the Kickstarter backers who believed in the idea from day 1
@johnonolan Congrats on the launch and important milestone!
Looking forward to how you work out the payments. A platform for supporting journalists reporting in regions that do not offer modern payment gateways due to complex finance systems / non-transparent governments would be a big boon.
Something like Stripe Atlas catered specifically for Journalists comes to mind.
@muloka We've got so many ideas around this, but we're mainly really looking forward to working with a few great publishers and building for IRL use-cases. Payments is so key to the future of news.
I made a pitch . I been connecting with Journalism experts on how to make journalism more effective, If boils down to allowing reporters to work without chasing clicks, the internet has destroyed the newspaper but tech has not make a proper replacement < i have some strong idea that are simple but effective to give a tool to journalist to access researched info.. it take work tech can be the tool to share and research but human intelligence has to be the foundation ..
HUUUUGE Ghost fan. Completely got me into blogging. Great platform that abstracts away all the unnecessary baggage that comes with wordpress. Liked it so much I ever built my first ever theme. Wish you all the best on Ghost for Journalism @johnonolan
Thank you so much for keeping Ghost open source as well. I'm also really excited to hear the plans that are being made for indie journalists (like myself) on the platform. I am a freelance journalist based in Tokyo, and a part of a group of others in the industry that uphold freedoms of the press. We work in big and small markets and for huge media conglomerates and small scrappy outfits alike. How can I help evangelize Ghost and make it a part of our reporting toolkit?
@starrwulfe That's awesome! I guess the single best thing you could do would be to use it, give use feedback about what you need, and help us make it better. I'm a huge believer that when a product is great, the word seems to spread all by itself. But we need help in order to be able to make it great :) PS. I'm hopefully going to be in Japan later this year, so we should meet up!
Congrats @johnonolan and the Ghost team. I'm looking forward to seeing how the focus on building independent journalism publications influences the main product roadmap, and how this impacts individual writers using the platform. It will also be interesting and exciting to observe the growth of independent publications in a world of so much content noise.
Good luck, and I can't wait to see this succeed. 👍