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{{Short description|American news and opinion website}}
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'''''OpEdNews''''' is a [[United States]]-based [[Progressivism in the United States|progressive]]/[[Modern liberalism in the United States|liberal]] [[news]], antiwar [[activism]], and opinion [[website]] founded by [[Rob Kall]] in 2003.<ref name="ABOUT"/><ref>{{cite news|last=Katalinas|first=Theresa|title=Bucks Web site grabs piece of the online news market - The highly traveled opednews.com joins the ranks of a growing Web news base.|url=http://iw.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/InfoWeb?p_action=doc&p_theme=aggdocs&p_topdoc=1&p_queryname=1173106EF98EC1A8&p_docnum=1&p_sort=YMD_date:D&p_product=AWNB&p_docid=1173106EF98EC1A8&p_text_direct-0=document_id=(%201173106EF98EC1A8%20)&p_nbid=N51H4FMJMTM5OTQ3MDIzMi4yNzcxMjk6MTo3OnJhLTg5OTA|
It is a hybrid news, community [[blog]] 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]] website that supports progressive communications resources and tools for activism and advocacy organizations." Being a news-source for many [[mainstream media]], independent websites and blogs, ''OpedNews'' calls itself "a ''[[Drudge Report]]'' for progressives".<ref name=FE>{{cite news|last=Singh|first=Asavari|title=What the world is reading|url=http://www.financialexpress.com/story-print/457709|
The site regularly features articles by journalists (including media critic [[Jeff Cohen (media critic)|Jeff Cohen]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Jeff Cohen author page at OpEdNews |url=http://www.opednews.com/author/author1530.html |
In 2014, [[technorati]] 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",<ref name="Technorati">{{cite news|last=staff|title=OpEdNews - OpEdNews.Com Progressive, Tough Liberal News and Opinion
==Background==
In early 2003, Kall had heard a [[Colin Powell]] speech about why the United States "had" to go to war with Iraq and felt that Powell's reasons were disingenuous.<ref name=OMT/> Wishing to "publish the Truth", Kall began a personal blog which developed into OpEdNews.<ref name=OMT/>
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== Editorial philosophy ==
''OpEdNews''' goal is to be holistic, to cover [[politics]], [[arts]] ([[movies]], [[books]], [[music]], [[theater]], etc.,) [[sciences]], [[health]], [[mass media]], [[business]], [[technology]], [[sports]], [[travel]], [[citizen journalism]] and various strange and unusual stuff.
''OpEdNews'' uses a custom built content management system designed by founder Rob Kall,<ref name=OMT/> 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.<ref name=OMT>{{cite news|last=Phillips|first=Marina|title=A Voice For Truth – Rob Kall|url=http://omtimes.com/2012/03/a-voice-for-truth-rob-kall/|
Opednews is one of 4500 websites indexed by [[Google News]].<ref>{{cite web|last=staff|title=Member/Writers Guidelines|url=http://www.opednews.com/populum/writersguidelines.php|publisher=opednews.com|
== Editorial staff ==
Senior Editorial Board:<ref>{{cite web|last=staff|title=OpEdNews Masthead|url=http://www.opednews.com/populum/masthead.php|publisher=opednews.com|
* Executive editor: Rob Kall<ref name=Scoop>{{cite news|last=Spritzler|first=John|title=Beware of Dangerous Articles by Rob Kall of OpEdNews|url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1404/S00235/beware-of-dangerous-articles-by-rob-kall-of-opednews.htm|
* Managing editors: Sheila Samples,
* Senior editors:
==Recognition==
OpEdNews founder Rob Kall is ranked by [[Mediaite]] as one of the top 200 online/print columnists.<ref name="HP 3"/><ref name=Mediaite>{{cite web|last=staff|title=The Mediaite Influence Index: Rob Kall - #178 among Print / Online Columnists|url=http://www.mediaite.com/power-grid/person/?q=Rob+Kall|publisher=[[Mediaite]]|
The site was a nominee in the 2007 Blogger's Choice Awards for 'Best Political Blog', 'Best Blog Design', and 'Best Education Blog.<ref>{{cite web|last=staff |
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]]s and the [[first amendment]], awarded by the 2013 Whistleblower Summit for Civil & Human Rights as hosted by [[Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now|ACORN 8]] and Federally Employed Women-Legal Education Fund (FEW/LEF).<ref name=ACRORN8>{{cite web|last=McCray|first=Michael|title=Whistleblower Summit Civil & Human Rights Conference July 29-31, 2013, Pillar Award Presentation|url=http://www.acorn8.com/|publisher=[[Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now|ACORN 8]]|
== References ==
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==External links==
* {{Official website|
[[Category:American political websites]]
[[Category:American news websites]]
[[Category:American political blogs]]
[[Category:Liberalism in the United States]]
[[Category:Progressivism in the United States]]
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