Join us at SRCCON 2025!

Our annual conference for journalists who want to transform their work, their organizations, and their communities is coming back to Minneapolis July 10-11, 2025.

Check out the program to see what sessions and conversations we have in store! Our call for participation form will remain open until we reach capacity — fill it out to attend, share it with others and remember space is limited! Visit the SRCCON 2025 site to learn more and join us.

Latest from the OpenNews Team

Read more on the OpenNews Blog.

• Update on leadership of OpenNews| posted 2024-09-17 10:00:00 +0000

  After twelve years at OpenNews, Co-Director Erika Owens leaves the staff team.

• Looking back at 2023: We spent this year creating opportunity| posted 2023-12-13 08:00:00 +0000

  Our programs and events help people share projects, explore ideas, build skills and, just as importantly, build connections with others that support them in that work. Here's how we did that this year.

• How we connected at SRCCON 2023, and what we're carrying into next year| posted 2023-11-15 08:00:00 +0000

  When we get together with care and intention, the relationships that emerge help us start to see possibilities for a better future.

• How we can give to each other as a community at SRCCON 2023| posted 2023-10-12 08:00:00 +0000

  SRCCON is a beginning of our work as a community, not a culmination. Here's more about what's going into our time together in Minneapolis this year, and how this community is already giving to each other at SRCCON 2023.

• Open letter urging Press Forward to ensure equitable distribution of resources to underrepresented voices in local news| posted 2023-09-20 08:00:00 +0000

  OpenNews has joined a coalition of journalism organizations calling on funders of the Press Forward Initiative to explicitly prioritize equity in their investments.

• Peer leadership as an organizing principle, as Jessica Morrison & John Hernandez join OpenNews| posted 2023-08-29 08:00:00 +0000

  Please help us welcome our new team of co-directors.

• More on the Co-Director position| posted 2023-05-10 12:00:00 +0000

  We've got answers to some of your questions about this new position with OpenNews.

• OpenNews is hiring: Co-director| posted 2023-04-19 14:30:00 +0000

  We're looking for another generalist to join our small team.

• Relationship building at NICAR 2023| posted 2023-02-28 14:30:00 +0000

  With hundreds of news nerds gathering in Nashville, we want to help make it easy to deepen relationships with each other.

• Collective support that shows up: Reflecting on 2022 and "looking beyond"| posted 2022-12-20 14:30:00 +0000

  Looking back on a year of care and connection.

Read more on the OpenNews Blog.