Travels With The Post is a free-to-the-public online news service offered by The Post Publications of Sanatoga PA. The Travels edition began development in January 2021 and launched on June 1, 2023.
During July 2023, its first full month of operation, Travels With The Post attracted a Google Analytics-verified readership of more than 2,400 unique individuals.
Travels With The Post intends to provide its readers with news about, and descriptions of, excursions, experiences, entertainment, eats, and events available within an 60-mile radius of Pottstown PA. On occasion it also will cover more far-flung areas, but usually within a 3-1/2-hour drive of Pottstown.
Travels With The Post is registered with PR Newswire, Newswise, BusinessWire, eNewsChannels, Morning Ag Clips, and ACCESS NewsWire international distribution systems. Its content is syndicated for national distribution by Google News.
Travels With The Post sells and publishes local advertising, and also publishes regional and national advertising syndicated through Google Adsense and other networks. It conforms with Interactive Advertising Bureau standards.
About the managing editor
Its managing editor, Joe Zlomek, is an accredited photographer and writer who began his career as a journalist at age 16.
Zlomek has worked as an owner, publisher, editor, reporter, photographer, and videographer of or for daily and weekly print newspapers, and online news services. He also is continuing a more than 50-year career as a freelance writer and photographer for trade and magazine publishers, but has retired from producing news stories daily. Find Zlomek’s Linked-In profile here.
The Post Publications were founded in 2008
For nearly 15 years, The Post Publications of Sanatoga PA served residents of municipalities and school districts across western Montgomery, eastern Berks, and northern Chester counties of Pennsylvania. It included editions for the communities of Sanatoga, Limerick, Pottstown, Schwenksville, Gilbertsville, Mont Clare, and Upper Perkiomen, all in Montgomery County; Boyertown, in Berks County; and Phoenixville, in Chester County.
All publications except the Travels edition were discontinued and taken offline in mid-June 2023. Their individual Facebook pages remain to continue distributing news for those communities.
The Posts, as they were known collectively, were created to specialize in intensely local (also known as “hyper-local” or “micro-local”) news coverage similar to that of weekly newspapers, but presented on a daily basis. Through May 31, 2023, The Posts’ network served a Google Analytics-verified monthly average audience of more than 58,000 unique active readers.
- Columbia Journalism Review, the nation’s oldest media monitoring publication, selected The Sanatoga Post as a feature subject in March 2012 as part of its “Guide To Online News Start-Ups” series.
- The Sanatoga, Limerick, and Pottstown editions were chosen in 2010 by former Reynolds Journalism Institute Fellow Michele McLellan as among the 14 best mini-sites in the U.S. for community news.
- The Sanatoga edition’s daily headline feed, e-mailed to readers, won “All-Star Awards” in 2012, 2011 and 2010, from national e-mail vendor Constant Contact.
Contact Us
To contact Zlomek or Travels With The Post, send an e-mail to travelswiththepost@gmail.com, or call 484-243-0984.
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