Built for publishers who’d rather be reporting.
Lede is the complete platform for independent publishers. Content, subscriptions, paywalls, ads, and newsletters — one platform, one team behind it.
We couldn’t find the tools, so we built them.
We built Lede for independent digital publishers who’d rather spend their time on journalism than on stitching together a content management system, a paywall plugin, an email service, and an analytics dashboard — and making sure all of it works together.
Our obsession with pulling these pieces into a single hub began in 2020, when we couldn’t find versions of these tools that worked and spoke to one another the way we believed they should. So we built our own. Everything we do is designed with publishers like you in mind.
Lede is part of Alley, a media technology firm founded in 2010 to provide expert product development for digital publishers — the strategic partner and website creator for some of the world’s largest news organizations. Visit Alley.com
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