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OpEdNews URL OpEdNews.com Commercial? No Type of site news, opinion, political and social analysis, activism Registration Optional Owner Rob Kall Launched 2003 Current status Active OpEdNews is a United States-based progressive/liberal news, activism, and opinion website founded in 2003. The site claims 350 to 800,000 unique visitors, around 70 million hits every month, having over 44,000 registered members. As of November, 010, technorati ranks Opednews.com among the top 100 blogs over all, out of the more than 1.2 million it tracks.
It is a hybrid news, community blog and article aggregation site which 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".
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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. The site is non-partisan but left-leaning, hosting some of the most prolific article-writers. It is Left biased and readers should expect to read the site as a left-wing site with a left wing perspective.
OpEdNews uses a custom built content management system Architected by founder Rob Kall, produced by populum.com. It includes features not found in other blog/media content management sites, such as being one of the 4500 websites approved by Google news, which means that all articles are indexed by Google NEWS almost immediately as they come online. Additionally, any author can include action pages custom designed for their Op-Ed articles, something which according to the site "is a unique innovation that no other website on the planet has". Other features include:
- user submitted polling with crosstab analysis of demographics
- support for groups, so content, when submitted can be shared on group pages
- event announcements
- calendars
- comprehensive member pages/archives
- content popularity statistics based on a page views, number of comments, number of emails sent, and ratings.
- a unique tagging system that analyzes content item words and then suggests tags that exist in the directory.
- an article submission queue managed by volunteer editors
- comment flagging and management system
- a news page for every member of congress (partially funded by a grant from the Sunlight Foundation)
- a page for every nation in the world, every county in the US, every province in Canada and every US metro area, with the ability to add pages for any neighborhood.
- RSS feeds for every member, every tag, ever locale
- twitter API integration, making it easy for members and non-members to tweet articles and add comments tied to the tweets.
- multiple levels of editor, admin, sysadmin control panel access options
- a quotation database
Writers/Editors/Columnists
Senior Editorial Board (see masthead):
- Rob Kall (Editor-in Chief)
- John Moffett
- Cheryl Biren-Wright
- Linda Milazzo
- Mikhail Lyubansky
- Walter Brasch
- Joan Brunwasser
- Josh Mitteldorf
- Scott Baker
A partial list of some of the thousands of writers on OpEdNews. Most post directly, some have given permission to reprint.
- Paul Craig Roberts
- Jeff Cohen
- Medea Benjamin
- Steve Bhaerman
- Ellen Brown
- Marjorie Cohn
- Michael Collins
- Sheldon Drobny
- Sibel Edmonds
- Bob Fitrakis
- Glen Ford
- Al Gore
- Thom Hartmann
- Bev Harris
- Earl Ofari Hutchinson
- Robert Jensen
- Dave Johnson
- Congressman Dennis Kucinich
- Stephen Lendman
- Rabbi Michael Lerner
- Steven Leser
- Paul Rogat Loeb
- Ray McGovern
- Robert McElvaine
- Mike Malloy
- Jason Miller
- Mark Crispin Miller
- Robert Naiman
- Georgianne Nienaber
- Rory Oconnor
- Siv O'Neal
- Stephen Pizzo
- Michael Richardson
- Senator Bernie Sanders
- Danny Schecter
- Andrew Schmookler
- Cindy Sheehan
- Roger Schuler
- Stephen Soldz
- David Swanson
- Nancy Tobi
- Dean Lawrence Velvel
- Robert Wolff
- Mickey Z
- Kevin Zeese
- Dave Zirin
Awards
- Bloggers Choice Awards 2007
- Nominated 2008: "Best Political Blog"
External links
Categories:- American political websites
- News agencies
- News websites
- Political weblogs
- Alternative journalism organizations
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