A publication (you may also see "organization") is a shared identity: a newspaper, an outlet, or just a few people who write together. It has its own feed, its own masthead, its own readers — and members who publish under it.
Should you publish as yourself or start a publication?
Either works. Our advice: if you're writing with anyone else, join forces — two is better than one under the same publication. A shared brand builds a readership faster than two separate names, and members can submit work for the publication's editors to review before it goes out.
The path
From the publications directory, create a new publication. You become its owner; invite the people who'll write with you. From then on, every create form lets you choose whether a piece publishes as you or as the publication.
Adding your team
From your publication's settings, invite people by email. Three things worth knowing:
- Inviting someone vouches for them. You agree that you know the person and are responsible for what they publish under your publication, and accepting the invitation is what lets them publish. No separate approval step, no waiting on us.
- They don't need a paid plan. Joining your publication is free. What they publish under your publication draws on YOUR plan — your monthly allowance, and any publication types your plan includes. What they publish under their own name is their own account's business, as it always was.
- One invitation can cover several publications. If you run more than one, tick the ones this person writes for and they get a single email. Someone already on one of your publications can be added to another with no email at all.
Removing someone from a publication doesn't undo the vouch — it just ends their access to that publication.
Your publication's pages
Beyond the profile, your publication carries the standing pages a paper is expected to have — About, Team, Policies, Contact, Advertise, Support and FAQ. You write the ones you want from your publication's settings; a page you leave blank simply doesn't exist, so readers never meet an empty shell. The Team page builds itself from your masthead, using each person's own photo and bio. Full walkthrough: your publication's pages.
Your publication has an RSS feed
Every publication gets one, automatically, from the day it exists. It lives at
mylocalpress.com/@yourhandle/feed.xml, with an Atom version at
/@yourhandle/feed.atom; before you claim a handle, the same two feeds sit at
/entity/{your publication id}/feed.xml and .atom. Each one carries your 30 most
recent stories — headline, byline, date, a short summary, and a link back to the
story. Stories only: events, classifieds, and notices stay off it.
You don't have to hand anyone the address. Your publication's pages advertise the feed, so a browser or a news reader finds it on its own — which is also how another newsroom points its tools at your reporting. If you publish on your own domain, the same paths work there and carry your domain's links. Nothing to switch on, and it costs nothing.
For existing outlets — print, TV, or radio
Bring your masthead. Your publication keeps your name and identity, with our platform underneath: the feed, the print edition, newsletters, and the money rails where readers support you directly and you keep 90% of it. Publishing on your own web domain — your paper, your domain, our platform — is available; membership options are on the membership page, and Work With Us is the fastest way to start that conversation. We're actively building our pricing around real outlets' actual costs, so talking to us genuinely shapes what this looks like.
For the questions a move like this raises that this guide doesn't answer — migrating an archive of past issues, transitioning existing print subscribers, what the first months actually look like — those are conversations, not settled features. Talk directly with the founders, Ryan and Adam, through Work With Us. They read every note.