SRCCON is June 22-24

Our annual conference for journalists who want to transform their work, their organizations, and their communities will take place online from June 22-24, 2022. Our call for participation form is now open! Learn more and join us.

Latest from the OpenNews Team

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• Open Letter to Pulitzer Prize Awards| posted 2022-04-22 12:00:00 +0000

  We asked the prize committee to add one requirement starting in 2024: In order to be eligible for a Pulitzer Prize, a news organization must publicly share data about staff demographics.

• DEI Coalition Year 2: Taking Action (Sign up and join!)| posted 2022-03-22 13:30:00 +0000

  If you want to be a part of a joyful process to create real, systemic change in the journalism industry, I can’t wait to welcome you to join, or deepen your work, with the DEI Coalition this year.

• Helping you strengthen your network and skills through the OpenNews Scholarships+ program| posted 2022-01-26 15:00:00 +0000

  If you're a journalist who works with data or code, our scholarships can help you pay for programs that advance your career and develop your support network. The first round of applications for this year opens January 31, 2022.

• What we did together in 2021: Understanding our collective power and ways to wield it| posted 2021-12-21 15:00:00 +0000

  Journalists, with tech skills especially, hold a tremendous amount of power, and through OpenNews and other change-focused networks, we’re constructing a shared understanding of how to wield that power.

• Congrats, Sisi, on the IWMF’S 2021 Gwen Ifill award!| posted 2021-10-07 11:20:00 +0000

  OpenNews co-executive director Sisi Wei is the 2021 recipient of IWMF’s Gwen Ifill award for her innovative approach to advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in journalism through strengthening communities and data journalism.

• Celebrating 10 years of reshaping journalism for the better| posted 2021-07-14 17:00:00 +0000

  OpenNews is officially 10 years old!

• Announcing our Co-Executive Directors and Director of Network Development| posted 2021-05-11 15:00:00 +0000

  At OpenNews, we’ve always been a values-driven team that dreams big. That’s why we’re so excited to announce two big changes to OpenNews today.

• Vision25: 5 ways to get involved in the movement for racial equity in newsrooms| posted 2021-03-02 10:00:00 +0000

  The past few months, we have worked behind the scenes scheming (the good kind) and strategizing new efforts through our Vision25 collaboration.

• We created a speaker rider because journalism didn’t have one| posted 2021-01-27 14:00:00 +0000

  Organizers, speakers, and attendees need to all work together to make events more inclusive.

• What we did together in 2020: setting "the bar for how to be wonderful, gracious, thoughtful change agents in journalism"| posted 2020-12-21 20:00:00 +0000

  In a challenging time, we built a lot with passion and love this year.

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