30 Oct 2025 Product Updates: Open-sourced AI narration plugin, and more experiments with recirculation By Jane O'Donoghue This past month we’ve open-sourced a WordPress plugin for the first time and continued to experiment with ways to help readers navigate the site experience. This past month we’ve open-sourced a WordPress plugin for the first time and continued to experiment with ways to help readers navigate the site experience.
14 Oct 2025 Our AI Narration Plugin is yours to use By Michael Donohoe We open-sourced the tool we use to generate AI narrations on Rest of World. It’s fast, flexible, and built for WordPress. We open-sourced the tool we use to generate AI narrations on Rest of World. It’s fast, flexible, and built for WordPress.
30 Sep 2025 Rest of World Welcomes Gordon Saft as Next Publisher By Rest of World It’s a big day at Rest of World, as we share the news that Gordon Saft will become our next Publisher. Gordon brings... Read More > It’s a big day at Rest of World, as we share the news that Gordon Saft will become our next Publisher. Gordon brings... Read More >
23 Sep 2025 Product Updates: Contributor Index, Accessibility Fixes and RSS By Jane O'Donoghue In September we launched a page where you can see all of our contributors in one place, made a number of accessibility fixes and a small improvement to help readers discover RSS feeds. In September we launched a page where you can see all of our contributors in one place, made a number of accessibility fixes and a small improvement to help readers discover RSS feeds.
26 Aug 2025 Product Updates: Pull Quotes, Beats and Merchandise By Jane O'Donoghue This month we've made some style updates to our pull quotes, beefed up our Beats pages, and spun up a pop-up merchandise store. This month we've made some style updates to our pull quotes, beefed up our Beats pages, and spun up a pop-up merchandise store.
24 Jul 2025 Product Updates: Satellite Scrollytelling and Charts Journeys By Jane O'Donoghue This month we launched a satellite project using a new scrolling video experience and created new journeys to charts. This month we launched a satellite project using a new scrolling video experience and created new journeys to charts.
18 Jun 2025 Product Updates: Charts, Style Guide and Experimentation By Jane O'Donoghue We’ve launched a new Charts index, published updates to our style guide and continued to launch tiny experiments. We’ve launched a new Charts index, published updates to our style guide and continued to launch tiny experiments.
11 Jun 2025 Charted Territory By Michael Donohoe We’ve quietly launched a browsable archive of every chart we’ve created. It's a new way to explore our journalism one bar, line, or dot at a time. We’ve quietly launched a browsable archive of every chart we’ve created. It's a new way to explore our journalism one bar, line, or dot at a time.
4 Jun 2025 We’re hiring a new publisher By Sophie Schmidt From our founder, on a big step forward From our founder, on a big step forward
27 May 2025 Three Years in Product: What I Built By Lily Lou I’m wrapping up after three years. Here are the projects I’m most proud to have built. I’m wrapping up after three years. Here are the projects I’m most proud to have built.
19 May 2025 Product Updates: Skype, Mobile Share tools and a Farewell By Jane O'Donoghue This month we published a custom project that celebrated the life of Skype, tested mobile share tools, and said goodbye to a dear colleague. This month we published a custom project that celebrated the life of Skype, tested mobile share tools, and said goodbye to a dear colleague.
12 May 2025 One bold blue to rule them all By Joanne Lee We retired our seven rotating palettes and bet on Cobalt. It’s cleaner, sharper, and still unmistakably us. We retired our seven rotating palettes and bet on Cobalt. It’s cleaner, sharper, and still unmistakably us.
