111Things.com Interactive News & Enterprise AI Publishing Platform

Business need

111Things is a DOYJO-owned publishing and local discovery platform. It brings national and local information into a reader experience supported by a custom WordPress newsroom.

The underlying challenge is coordination. Research, source review, editorial rules, location categories, scheduling, and publication all need to connect. Readers also need useful ways to find coverage relevant to a place or topic, rather than having every story compete in a single feed.

Work delivered

DOYJO developed the Enterprise Scaled News Next Gen newsroom and connected it with the public discovery experience.

• Story discovery, source packets, corroboration, and candidate evaluation.
• Duplicate prevention, drafting, and validation stages.
• Editorial lanes with configurable source standards, priorities, categories, and voice.
• Location tags and local scheduling tied to publication workflows.
• Publishing status, operational reporting, and human review points.
• City hubs, weather integration, daily briefs, and topic-based discovery.
• Custom WordPress architecture that can separate research and release responsibilities.

What the system supports

Publishers can define how material moves from research through review and release, with visibility into the status of that work. The system provides a place for editorial rules and human judgment within an automated production process.

On the public site, national coverage, local hubs, weather, and discovery tools offer different entry points into the same information environment. As an owned platform, 111Things demonstrates DOYJO’s work on custom publishing systems, integrations, and operational workflows alongside the website visitors see.