SRCCON 2023 is back in Minneapolis

Our annual conference for journalists who want to transform their work, their organizations, and their communities will take place in Minneapolis, MN from October 17-18, 2023. Our call for participation form is now open! Learn more and join us.

Latest from the OpenNews Team

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• Open letter urging Press Forward to ensure equitable distribution of resources to underrepresented voices in local news| posted 2023-09-20 08:00:00 +0000

  OpenNews has joined a coalition of journalism organizations calling on funders of the Press Forward Initiative to explicitly prioritize equity in their investments.

• Peer leadership as an organizing principle, as Jessica Morrison & John Hernandez join OpenNews| posted 2023-08-29 08:00:00 +0000

  Please help us welcome our new team of co-directors.

• More on the Co-Director position| posted 2023-05-10 12:00:00 +0000

  We've got answers to some of your questions about this new position with OpenNews.

• OpenNews is hiring: Co-director| posted 2023-04-19 14:30:00 +0000

  We're looking for another generalist to join our small team.

• Relationship building at NICAR 2023| posted 2023-02-28 14:30:00 +0000

  With hundreds of news nerds gathering in Nashville, we want to help make it easy to deepen relationships with each other.

• Collective support that shows up: Reflecting on 2022 and "looking beyond"| posted 2022-12-20 14:30:00 +0000

  Looking back on a year of care and connection.

• A celebration of the relationships and actions that move the news nerd community| posted 2022-12-14 14:30:00 +0000

  The first highlights from the latest News Nerd Survey tell us about how our community has been working together to support each other, some shifts in its configuration and where to take more action.

• Stepping into values-first leadership, in a new way| posted 2022-08-02 14:30:00 +0000

  Sisi Wei will leave OpenNews to carry forward her change making work as editor-in-chief at The Markup.

• OpenNews surveys the journalism landscape, future| posted 2022-07-06 12:00:00 +0000

  After a few quiet years, we’ve brought this community survey back to gather new data on how the field of journalism is evolving, as well as who makes up the news nerd community and other groups served by OpenNews.

• 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.

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