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Newspack @newspack.com · May 13

🎉 For nearly 30 years, Foundation has been the digital backbone of venerated alt-weekly publications. Today, Foundation is joining forces with Newspack to ensure these publishers — and others — have a strong, sustainable future online.

Read the details: newspack.com/joining-with...

Foundation and Newspack join forces — Newspack

Foundation, a CMS provider that has served alt-weekly publications for nearly 30 years, is joining Newspack.

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Newspack @newspack.com · May 12

👏 Congratulations to @inewsource.org on being named a Pulitzer Prize Finalist in the llustrated Reporting and Commentary category for "Fentanyl: A Decade of Death."

Click here to read the story: inewsource.org/2024/12/19/f...

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Newspack @newspack.com · May 1

👏 Huge shout-out to our community member Inside Investigator for winning a whopping 26 awards last month from the Society of Professional Journalists, Connecticut Press Club, and the New England Newspaper & Press Association.

Click here to read more: insideinvestigator.org/awards/

Awards

We don’t do it for the awards, but we do enjoy winning. Recognition means we helped tell a story that made a difference.

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Newspack @newspack.com · Apr 23

🍾 Congratulations to our community members @publicintegrity.bsky.social, @revealnews.org, @elpasomatters.bsky.social, and @injusticewatch.org on their @ire.org award wins!

www.ire.org/announcing-t...

2024 IRE Award winners & finalists

Awards will be presented at the 2025 IRE Conference.

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Newspack @newspack.com · Apr 22

You may not always have time to read our release notes. That's why we published our first of many quarterly product roundups to make it easier for you to keep tabs on the most impactful improvements we make throughout the year.

Here are the top updates from Q1: newspack.com/top-product-...

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Newspack @newspack.com · Apr 14

🏆 Congratulations to our community member @atavist.com for their National Magazine Award win for “Coming to America,” by Rhana Natour. Click here for the link to the story: asme.memberclicks.net/profile-writ....

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Newspack @newspack.com · Apr 14

🏆 Congratulations to our community members the Center for Public Integrity and @revealnews.org for their National Magazine Award win for three episodes of the podcast “40 Acres and a Lie,” hosted by Al Letson. Find links to the episodes here: asme.memberclicks.net/podcasting-2...

Newspack @newspack.com · Apr 11

Congratulations to the team! So well-deserved.

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Newspack @newspack.com · Apr 11

Newspack publisher @atavist.com inspired another @netflix.com documentary series! Congratulations to the Atavist Magazine team on a successful investigation that illuminates the realities we all need to face about social media's negative impacts on children.

Automattic @automattic.com · Apr 11

Everyone’s talking about Netflix’s new docuseries “Bad Influence”—but did you know it all started with a story from Automattic’s own @atavist.com?

“Crushed,” a longform investigation from The Atavist, exposed the dark side of YouTube stardom and the role parents played behind the scenes.

Illustration of a red-toned video player with a smiling face, surrounded by heart and smiley emojis. A person peers at the scene from behind with closed eyes.

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