Dimitru. You can also use a version of Newspack on your desktop server, or your paid-for hosted site – using the Newspack Theme [https://github.com/Automattic/newspack-theme] and Newspack plugin [https://github.com/Automattic/newspack-plugin]. Give it a try. It won’t cost you anything but time.

Our news site – which covers just one small neighbourhood in London – uses Newspack hosted on a WordPress.com business plan. I only started using it a month ago, so I’m still getting used to it having upgraded from a basic wp.com plan. We have no plans at the moment to monetize it (doubt we ever will as we are too small).