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Partners

For independent publishers: what joining the network provides, what it requires, and how review works.

Partner publications

We are opening the 24World Media network to a small number of independent publishers as partner publications. Partners keep their own brand, domain and editorial voice. What they join is the machinery around the brand: the publishing platform, the editorial standard, and access to network distribution and advertising.

What partners get

  • A place in the directory. Partner publications are listed in the network’s Brands directory and this site’s footer index, marked as partner titles.
  • Network distribution. Access to stories moving through the network and the wire, publishable under the same guideline checks that govern our own outlets.
  • Network advertising. Eligibility for advertising and sponsored-content opportunities sold at group level, shared with the publication under the partnership terms.
  • One technical standard. The same security, backup and performance baseline we apply to our own sites: closed reader registration, audited plugins, original content only.

What we ask

  • Original content only. Copied feeds, scraped articles and spun text are removed and end the partnership.
  • Named editorial responsibility. A real desk or author stands behind every story. Anonymous content dumps do not qualify.
  • Clearly labelled commercial work. Sponsored content is marked as sponsored, on partner titles exactly as on our own.
  • Corrections in the open. Errors are corrected on the page, with the correction visible.

How joining works

Partner onboarding is handled personally by our network team; there is deliberately no self-serve signup. Tell us about your publication through the Contact page: the title, its audience, who writes for it, and how often it publishes. We review the site against the standards above and reply with a decision or the changes we would need to see first. Partnerships that start with an honest “not yet” tend to become the ones that work.

How review works

Send us the publication, its audience and its publishing rhythm. We read the site as a reader would: recent originality, named authorship, how sponsored material is labelled, how corrections are handled, and whether the archive is real publishing or a feed. Most reviews resolve into one of three answers: yes, not yet with named changes, or no. A “not yet” answer comes with the specific changes we would need to see. A partnership is a standing relationship, so we would rather be direct at the start.

What partnership is not

Partnership is not a paid link scheme, a content-swap farm or a way to place unlabelled advertising. Partner titles publish under the same labelling and originality rules as our own outlets, and repeated violations end the partnership. If that sounds strict, it is the reason the network’s placements are worth having.

Iconic News Wire

Featured partner

Iconic News Wire

The press-release wire we work through when a story needs to travel further than our own publications. As our media partner and client, the wire runs the same central newsroom discipline we run for the group: releases are checked before they move, placements are named, and every live link is recorded and reported back.

  • Editorial checks before anything moves
  • Placements named openly, never hidden
  • Every live link recorded and reported back

Why partner with us

One network, one standard

Partners work through the same central newsroom and the same editorial checks the group runs on its own 33 publications.

Reach across the US and Canada

General news, business, regional and digital desks, with coverage listed publicly, title by title, on the coverage map.

Named, reported placements

Nothing is sprayed and nothing is hidden: placements are agreed by name and every live link is reported back.

Become a partner

Run a publication, wire or agency and want to work with the network? Tell us about it. Applications are reviewed by a person, not a bot.

Talk to the partnerships desk