This post originally appeared on OpenNews’ Source. A guidebook for people who care about journalism and open source Today we’re thrilled to announce the first release of our community-built guidebook, The Field Guide to Open Source in the Newsroom. It’s the work of more than 20 contributors from around the country and around the world—and that’s just the […]

This post originally appeared on OpenNews’ blog. Today, Knight is announcing a $1.1 million investment in OpenNews‘ network of journalists and technologists to launch as an independent organization. Today is a big day for OpenNews. After six years with Mozilla, we’re striking out on our own thanks to a new grant from the Knight Foundation. There […]

Photo by Flickr user Marc Wathieu.  The Coral Project, a collaboration by Mozilla, The New York Times and The Washington Post, is creating an online community platform where readers can participate in conversations about stories and topical issues. Knight Foundation supported this project in June 2014. The Coral Project is building an open-source content and commenting platform. […]

Cross-posted from Dan Sinker’s blog. Photo: Newsroom of The New York Times via Wikimedia Commons. Community is at the core of what we do at Knight-Mozilla OpenNews—helping to build and strengthen the community of people writing code in journalism. And community is a big part of what has made Mozilla successful—the global community of contributors […]

Photo: Knight-Mozilla OpenNews director Dan Sinker visiting the MIT Media Lab with the 2013 Knight-Mozilla Fellows. Photo credit: Knight-Mozilla Fellows. This item was originally posted on June 16, 2014 at dansinker.com. I’m excited to announce that starting today, applications to become a 2015 Knight-Mozilla Fellow are open. The Fellowships offer an opportunity for people that love to […]

The following blog, written by Ryan Pitts and Dan Sinker, is cross-posted from source.opennews.org. When we talk with newsrooms about open-sourcing their work, often the response we get is that they’d love to, but deadline pressures keep the last-mile work and documentation that signifies a good open-source project on the to-do list. So at OpenNews, […]