''OpEdNews'' is a
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progressive/
liberal
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Politics
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, antiwar
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, and opinion
website
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founded by
Rob Kall in 2003.
It is a hybrid news, community
blog
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and article aggregation site that publishes opinion-based articles, news stories, and diaries while its mission, according to the site, is to "... provide a content management,
social networking
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website that supports progressive communications resources and tools for activism and advocacy organizations." Being a news-source for many
mainstream media
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, independent websites and blogs, ''OpedNews'' calls itself "a ''
Drudge Report
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'' for progressives".
The site regularly features articles by journalists (including media critic
Jeff Cohen and
Pulitzer Prize
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winner
Chris Hedges),
politicians (including US Senator
Bernie Sanders
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and former
U.S. Representative
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Dennis Kucinich
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), and commentators and activists (including
Michael Moore
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Moore won the 2002 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for ' ...
and
Medea Benjamin
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In 2014,
technorati
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ranked ''OpEdNews''.com among the top 100 blogs for politics, uspolitics. world, green, and health, and listed it as among the "Top 100 blogs overall",
while
Mediaite
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Conte ...
showed founder Kall ranked as one of the top 200 print/online columnists.
Background
In early 2003, Kall had heard a
Colin Powell
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speech about why the United States "had" to go to war with Iraq and felt that Powell's reasons were disingenuous.
[ Wishing to "publish the Truth", Kall began a personal blog which developed into OpEdNews.][
]
Editorial philosophy
''OpEdNews goal is to be holistic, to cover politics
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, arts
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(movies
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, books
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, music
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, theater
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, etc.,) sciences
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, health
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, mass media
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, business
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, technology
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, sports
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, travel
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, citizen journalism
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and various strange and unusual stuff.
''OpEdNews'' uses a custom built content management system designed by founder Rob Kall,[ produced by populum.com. It includes features not found in other blog/media content management sites, such as an image search and insertion program that finds creative commons images and inserts them in content with attribution automatically included, a multi-level editing system that allows editors with different degrees of responsibility to access a queue of submitted articles and edit then accept or reject them. The site has over 50 editors who volunteer their time to review hundreds of submissions each month.]
Opednews is one of 4500 websites indexed by Google News
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Google rel ...
.
Editorial staff
Senior Editorial Board:
* Executive editor: Rob Kall
* Managing editors: Sheila Samples, Meryl Ann Butler, Scott Baker
* Senior editors: Joan Brunwasser, Josh Mitteldorf, Jerry Policoff, Marta Steele,
Recognition
OpEdNews founder Rob Kall is ranked by Mediaite
Mediaite is a news website focusing on politics and the media.Howard PolskinHow the Washington Examiner became a traffic monster ''Columbia Journalism Review'' (May 15, 2020). Founded by Dan Abrams, it is part of the Abrams Media Network.
Conte ...
as one of the top 200 online/print columnists.
The site was a nominee in the 2007 Blogger's Choice Awards for 'Best Political Blog', 'Best Blog Design', and 'Best Education Blog.
In 2013, ''Opednews'' (new media) and founder Rob Kall became the first media winners of the Pillar Human Rights Award for International Persons of Conscience for supporting whistleblower
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s and the first amendment
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, awarded by the 2013 Whistleblower Summit for Civil & Human Rights as hosted by ACORN 8 and Federally Employed Women-Legal Education Fund (FEW/LEF).[transcript]
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References
External links
* {{Official website, https://www.opednews.com
American political websites
American news websites
American political blogs
Liberalism in the United States
Progressivism in the United States