WordPress.com VIP Supports Women in Digital Journalism at ONA
I am so proud to share that WordPress.com VIP was a sponsor at this year’s ONA Women’s Leadership Accelerator at USC. This was our second year supporting the program, and my second year spending time...
View ArticleUSA Today Sports Media Group on the Benefits of a Common Theme
When newly acquired publications and sites come in to a large publishing group, they often come with baggage: their own approach to UX and underlying technologies. These unique themes and feature sets...
View ArticleThe Coral Project – Community Tools from Newsrooms, for Newsrooms
The ongoing critical interest in the relationships between news publications and their reader communities has only escalated throughout the 2016 US election cycle and beyond. The practice of journalism...
View ArticleThe Dream Internship: Work at Automattic (Summer 2017 and Beyond)
Automattic — which runs WordPress.com, Akismet, VaultPress, and many other services — is hiring interns, specifically to work on the WordPress.com VIP team. WordPress.com VIP provides hosting and...
View ArticleThe State of the News Audience, Post-Election
Dan Maccarone of Charming Robot has spent much of his career conducting user research with regular people about how they use various forms of news media. He and his team spend time with them inside of...
View ArticleApril VIP Roundup
Welcome to the first edition of VIP Roundup, your monthly review of news and perspectives from across the enterprise WordPress ecosystem, and the digital media and marketing landscape. This is brand...
View ArticleWordPress.com VIP hosting now certified under Privacy Shield
We’re delighted to announce that we have completed certification of WordPress.com VIP’s hosting service under the EU-US and Swiss-US Privacy Shield Frameworks. This means global publishers and European...
View ArticleThank you from VIP Workshop 2017
We spent most of last week with many of you at WordPress.com VIP Workshop, our annual gathering of clients, partners, Automatticians, provocative thinkers, and invited guests. It brought together folks...
View ArticleChallenging times for online journalists: thoughts from ONA Dublin 2017
A few of us from the WordPress.com VIP team were delighted to join journalists, producers and developers from Europe and elsewhere for the Online News Association’s conference in Dublin, Ireland in...
View ArticleMay VIP Roundup
With May drawing to a close, we’re several weeks out from seeing many of you at VIP Workshop, and WordCamp Europe is just days away. See below for the past month’s highlights from across the enterprise...
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