The Sanatoga Post was considered "freshly pressed" on Wednesday.

SANATOGA PA – The Sanatoga Post enjoyed national recognition twice Wednesday (March 3, 2010).

• One of its articles was chosen as among the nine best items published during the day from more than 10 million (yes, million) blogs hosted by WordPress.com; and
• It also was named by a columnist for the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri as a news mini-site considered among the most “promising online news organizations” in the country.

At WordPress, The Post article headlined “26 Percent Of You Will Read This On A Cell Phone” – which reported on a study of mobile news readers conducted by the Pew Research Center – was featured on the blog host’s main web page, along with eight other stories deemed “freshly pressed.” A screen shot of the page appears above; the link to The Post article is in the bottom-left corner.

The competition for WordPress’ promotional attention is stiff. On Wednesday, its editors said, The Post ranked among the best of 301,938 active bloggers; 301,756 new posts; 386,787 comments; and 65,327,759 words published on its platform within a 24-hour span. “The positioning brought thousands of new readers to us,” Managing Editor Joe Zlomek said, and resulted in The Post‘s highest-ever single-day readership.

At the Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI), columnist and 2009-2010 institute fellow Michele McLellan named The Sanatoga, Limerick and Pottstown Post editions in her latest discoveries of online community news leaders. Part of her efforts in identifying and publicizing the list of promising sites, she wrote, was to “learn from them and see if RJI can help them flourish.”

The Posts were categorized in McClellan’s mini-sites, those operated by only one or two people. She is a co-founder of the Frontline Editors Project, and a former editor, writer and ombudsman for The (Riverside CA) Press-Enterprise and The (Portland OR) Oregonian newspapers.

“We’re honored to join the distinguished, and in most cases, much larger news organizations” in McClellan’s list, Zlomek said, “and hope that someday we’ll be equally as large. There’s a lot to live up to in that ‘promising’ designation.”

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