Sacramento Press

The Sacramento Press is a strictly online newspaper written primarily by volunteer Community Contributors.

Sacramento Press combined the best tools on the web and built an outstanding platform from scratch. This platform enables people to tell stories about their neighborhoods and have thoughtful conversations about these stories. Then editors place the best content on the front page and section pages to highlight great work.

The casual experience is like a traditional newspaper. Pride is taken in putting the content front and center as well as making tools for rating content, leaving comments, and flagging inappropriate content easy to find and easy to use. For those who are web savvy, tools are available for a power user to aggregate (RSS), categorize (tags), and dig deeper with the "storyline" button.

Sacramento Press is a for-profit business, but consider themselves a public trust. The original concept of the corporation was a balance between allowing people to join together for a common goal with some profit potential and demanding that the corporation provide a public service to the nation. In this case, Sacramento Press provides valuable services to the neighborhoods of Sacramento while showing that this kind of community journalism can be profitable.