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Open your own media desk

A FoundryInk studio does not have to make comics at all. You can run it as a media desk: publish news and posts, keep an events calendar, and grow a subscriber audience. Here is how to stand one up.

Read time about 6 min

1Publish news and posts

Everything starts in the Blog tab. Create a post, set its kind, News (announcements, timely coverage) or Blog (longer features and behind-the-scenes), write it in Markdown, add a cover, and choose whether it belongs to the studio or a series. If you run a media-only studio, turn Assets off in Settings so your workspace is all posts, no comic tools in the way.

The post editor: Add a cover image, a title, the Markdown body, and Save or Publish.See the full screen

Studio Settings, Features: untick Assets to make a news-only studio.See the full screen

With FoundryInk access, a post wizard helps you organize raw notes and images into a clean outline. It never writes the piece for you, it just tidies your thinking.

Pro note

Use News for the timely stuff and Blog for the deep dives. Readers can filter by tab, so keep the two distinct.

2Send it to the world

Published posts surface on your public page under separate News and Blog tabs, and flow into your studio Feed alongside releases and events. On Browse, news rides the platform's News rail. Readers can comment, like, and tip on posts, so readers can respond, not just read. Short vertical pieces can also opt into the Shorts rail from their Content tab.

A public studio page's tabs, with News between Referrals and Blog.See the full screen

Browse with Happening and News selected shows the Latest news rail.See the full screen

Pro note

A media desk depends on cadence. A steady stream of posts keeps you in the feed and in readers' habits.

3Grow and gate with subscriptions

Turn readers into subscribers and broadcast to them from the Audience hub, and keep an events calendar for launches, streams, and appearances (it shows on your page and the platform-wide calendar). One honest note on paywalls: FoundryInk gates your work, priced and tier-locked assets with free preview pages, not individual news posts. So to put premium coverage behind a wall today, publish it as a tier-locked asset rather than a post.

The studio's Audience tab, Subscribers view: Broadcasts, Paid subscribers and New broadcast.See the full screen

The studio's Events tab lists upcoming events, with New event, List and Calendar.See the full screen

Posts are public by design (they surface on your page tabs). Reserve the paywall for your assets, and use posts to pull readers toward them.

Pro note

Free posts as the hook, tier-locked assets as the treat. That combo turns casual readers into paying subscribers.

Stand up your desk

A media studio in four moves. Links into the app. Saved on this device.

Publish a News post→

Turn off Assets if you're media-only→

Add an event to your calendar→

Set up subscriber tiers→

Quick questions

Not the post itself, posts are public and surface on your page tabs. FoundryInk gates your work: publish premium coverage as a priced or tier-locked asset with free preview pages, and use free posts to point readers to it.

News is timely announcements and coverage; Blog is longer features and behind-the-scenes. They show under separate tabs so readers can filter to what they want.

No. Turn Assets off in Settings and run a media-only studio built on posts, events, and subscribers. The comic tools simply step out of your way.

On your public page's News and Blog tabs, in your studio Feed, and on the platform's News rail in Browse. Short vertical pieces can also join the Shorts rail.

Your media desk is running

News, posts, events, and subscribers, a whole media operation from one studio. That's the Academy end to end. Go run it.

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