Yes. If you are a site you have your own domain, platform, and independence. Blogs can also have these properties and still be blogs however. To be classified as news likely means regular frequency regular fact reporting articles, journalists going to events, and news pieces which aren’t opinion pieces to be published alongside your other content
Dropsite does all of these things. They were the ex top journalists of TheIntercept. They own the dropsitenews domain and redirect it to their Substack site
They host their site on Substack because it provides a convenient layout to publish articles does not negate any of that. This is similar to using WordPress.
Yes. If you are a site you have your own domain, platform, and independence. Blogs can also have these properties and still be blogs however. To be classified as news likely means regular frequency regular fact reporting articles, journalists going to events, and news pieces which aren’t opinion pieces to be published alongside your other content
Dropsite does all of these things. They were the ex top journalists of TheIntercept. They own the dropsitenews domain and redirect it to their Substack site
They host their site on Substack because it provides a convenient layout to publish articles does not negate any of that. This is similar to using WordPress.
Dropsite aren’t a news site then imo either. And using wordpress for your News site is a red flag too imo.
Because journalism requires expertise in HTML CSS and Javascript?
Top News Websites Using WordPress
These examples will all be heavily customised. Neccessitating expertise in HTML, CSS, and Javascript. Perhaps a yellow flag then
This looks like a plenty professional news site. Little gives away it is hosted on Substack. There is a banner at the bottom of the site.