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Big success from a small newsroom: How the Auburn Examiner uses Stacker

Big success from a small newsroom: How the Auburn Examiner uses Stacker

Stacker works with publishers large and small. We aim to empower journalists and bolster their newsroom with relevant, impactful content that engages their audiences and provides them with the necessary time and resources to build their own cadre of content offerings. We asked Elizabeth Miller, founder and editor of the

How our Story Tech Stack helps deliver journalism to 1,000+ local news organizations

How our Story Tech Stack helps deliver journalism to 1,000+ local news organizations

Local storytelling has always been in our DNA, but recent investments in our core technology have allowed us to produce something relatively novel: an automated storytelling tech stack for transforming data into full stories—featuring national, state, city, county, or even zip code-level insights for our local news partners at

Introducing Stacker Local

Introducing Stacker Local

As we’ve built Stacker, we’ve seen the impact that providing high-quality data journalism can have on news organizations. It can contextualize complex topics and engage readers through intuitive storytelling formats, all while filling coverage gaps for audiences that have come to expect a comprehensive range of stories from

Welcoming 5 new partners to the Stacker Publishing Network

Welcoming 5 new partners to the Stacker Publishing Network

It’s been an exciting winter at Stacker, and we’re thrilled to welcome an additional five partners to the Stacker Publishing Network: Adams Publishing Group, Advance Local, Beasley Media Group, Narcity, and WEHCO Media. The new partners reflect the diversity of the current media landscape: newspaper groups, broadcast organizations,

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Stacker's First Data Drop: Immigrant populations of 1900

Historical data can provide valuable insights in contextualizing modern society and today’s world. But antiquated resources are rarely available in easy-to-read formats, leaving researchers and journalists to slog through faded handwritten records or grainy scans of typewritten

Stacker adds 6 new hires

Stacker adds 6 new hires

We are thrilled to announce six new hires at Stacker this week across the newsroom and business teams. Stacker is building the world’s most accessible, widely distributed newswire, and as we cross 30 full-time hires as a company, we’re adding talented journalists, client strategists, and our first People

How Nexstar works with Stacker to go beyond the daily news cycle

How Nexstar works with Stacker to go beyond the daily news cycle

Having a diversified and increasingly local readership requires thoughtful storytelling that is not only engaging but also hyper-relevant. Stories need to be interesting not just because of the topic, but also because they are happening in readers’ backyards. Nexstar Media Group, a company whose digital division operates 120 local sites

4 Public Data Sources You Can Use For Telling Local Stories

4 Public Data Sources You Can Use For Telling Local Stories

Data storytelling is central to our newsroom efforts at Stacker, where we focus on using data to add to the conversation around current events and longer-term trends. Data journalism contextualizes, with each data point representing an opportunity to compare—placing that recent rainstorm within the context of 100 years of

Introducing the 'Republish This Story' button

Introducing the 'Republish This Story' button

A new tool makes it easier than ever to republish Stacker Stories We’re excited to officially announce the launch of a new feature that makes it easier than ever for reporters and editors to syndicate or repurpose any of Stacker’s data-driven news articles and reported features with their

Data, storytelling, and lists: The making of a 21st-century wire service

Data, storytelling, and lists: The making of a 21st-century wire service

Nicole Caldwell is Stacker's Managing Editor Wire services and other publishing groups that offer syndicated reporting have always played major roles in the journalism industry. These services provide news organizations with timely and entertaining pieces that can fill gaps in coverage while providing comprehensive reporting that audiences can

Meet Stacker: A data-driven newsroom for the world's publishers

Meet Stacker: A data-driven newsroom for the world's publishers

As news organizations increasingly compete with all other forms of digital news and entertainment, there is a growing need to provide a full spectrum of content for readers… but you can’t have eyes and ears everywhere. For decades, news organizations have relied on syndicated partner content to augment original

How We Got Here

Company News Featured

How We Got Here

This month Stacker will onboard our 20th employee. When we launched the company in 2017 and decided to forgo fundraising and bootstrap the business, we knew we had to be deliberate in our efforts. We were enthusiastic about building a ‘syndication first’ media company that transformed public data into engaging