NewsPlatform — an independent news publishing platform

Who NewsPlatform is for

• Readers who want the day's stories from independent writers and smaller newsrooms in one place, in a newest-first story list with no per-reader personalisation.
• Independent writers and journalists who want a free place to publish articles under their own channel, with a proper rich-text editor and a public URL for every story.
• Small newsrooms, newsletters and organisations that want a branded channel and a read/write API they can publish into programmatically.
• Developers and AI tools that need a public, read-only JSON feed of recent articles.

What you can do on NewsPlatform

• Read the front page. The homepage lists articles from every channel, newest first, with a lead story at the top and a most-read rail alongside it.
• Browse by category. Articles are filed under Politics, Business, Tech, AI, Science, Sports, Culture, Lifestyle, Education, Environment, Opinion and Law, with a category ribbon across the top of the site.
• Follow channels. Subscribe to a channel to keep track of a writer and to grow their public subscriber count.
• Publish your own articles. Create a free account, create a channel, and write with a rich-text editor that supports headings, lists, links, tables, images with captions, charts and location tags.
• Subscribe by RSS. The whole site has a feed at /rss.xml, and every channel has its own feed at /channels/<id>/rss.xml.
• Use the Content API. A public read-only endpoint returns recent articles as JSON; an authenticated write API lets you publish into channels you own. See the Content API docs.

How it works

1. Create a free account. Email and password, or sign in with Google.
2. Create a channel. Give it a name, a description, images and a category focus. A channel is your publishing space on NewsPlatform.
3. Write and publish. Articles get a permanent URL of the form /articles/<id>/<slug>, are listed on the homepage and your channel page, and appear in the site sitemap and RSS feed.
4. Build an audience. Readers subscribe to your channel; your subscriber count is public on the channel page. You can edit, unpublish or delete anything you publish at any time.

There is a longer walk-through on the How it works page, and a writer-focused guide on Publishing on NewsPlatform.

What makes NewsPlatform different

• Chronological, not algorithmic. Newest published articles come first. A channel with three subscribers can lead the homepage.
• Free to publish. There is no subscription fee and no upfront cost to create a channel or publish articles.
• Channels, not single-author blogs. One account can run several channels, and a channel can represent a person, a newsroom or a topic desk.
• Built to be read by machines too. Article pages are prerendered for crawlers with NewsArticle structured data, and there is a public JSON API and RSS.
• Clearly labelled sponsorship. The only advertising is labelled sponsored placements, described on the Advertise page. No pop-ups, no autoplay audio, no interstitials.

Learn more

• About NewsPlatform — what it is, who it is for, and how it is funded.
• How it works — the step-by-step guide for readers and writers.
• Publishing on NewsPlatform — what writers get, and what the platform deliberately does not do.
• FAQ — the questions people ask most often.
• Comparisons — how NewsPlatform differs from Substack, Medium and Ghost.
• Best platforms for independent journalists — an honest round-up, including when another platform is the better answer.
• Channel directory and the Content API.

Frequently asked questions

Read the full FAQ