To help small newsrooms overcome challenges in their strive to go digital, Google is creating a new publishing platform for local news publishers.
Google News Initiative has partnered with Automattic and WordPress.com and invested $1.2 million to create Newspack. Newspack is said to be a fast, secure, low-cost publishing platform for small newsrooms, Google said, and it will be made available globally later in the year.
Newspack usrs will have access to all WordPress plugins, but the core product is what Google calls an 'opinionated CMS' that "knows the right thing to do, even when you don't". That's vague but more details will be coming soon.