OpEdNews

OpEdNews
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Available inEnglish
OwnerRob Kall
Created byRob Kall
EditorRob Kall (Editor in chief)
URLopednews.com
RegistrationOptional
Users36,000 +[1]
Launched28 February 2003; 21 years ago (2003-02-28)[2]
Current statusActive

OpEdNews is a United States–based progressive/liberal news, antiwar activism, and opinion website founded by Rob Kall in 2003.[2][3]

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".[4][5]

The site regularly features articles by journalists (including media critic Jeff Cohen[6] and Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges),[7] politicians (including US Senator Bernie Sanders[8] and former U.S. Representative Dennis Kucinich),[9] and commentators and activists (including Michael Moore[10] and Medea Benjamin[11]) as well as first-time writers.

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",[12] while Mediaite showed founder Kall ranked as one of the top 200 print/online columnists.[13]

  1. ^ http://websitedetailed.com/opednews.com
  2. ^ a b staff (March 4, 2003). "About OpEdNews.Com". OpEdNews.com. Archived from the original (Wayback Machine archive) on March 4, 2003. Retrieved May 23, 2014.
  3. ^ Katalinas, Theresa (February 5, 2007). "Bucks Web site grabs piece of the online news market - The highly traveled opednews.com joins the ranks of a growing Web news base". The Intelligencer. Retrieved May 7, 2014.[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ Singh, Asavari (May 12, 2009). "What the world is reading". Financial Express. Retrieved May 7, 2014.
  5. ^ Weiner, Ed (March 24, 2003). "Web War". Philadelphia Daily News. Retrieved May 7, 2014.[permanent dead link]
  6. ^ "Jeff Cohen author page at OpEdNews". OpEdNews. Retrieved May 19, 2014.
  7. ^ "Chris Hedges". opednews.com. Retrieved May 19, 2014.
  8. ^ "Bernie Sanders". opednews.com. Retrieved May 19, 2014.
  9. ^ "Dennis Kucinich author page at OpEdNews". OpEdNews. Retrieved May 19, 2014.
  10. ^ "Michael Moore". opednews.com. Retrieved May 19, 2014.
  11. ^ "Medea Benjamin author page at OpEdNews". OpEdNews. Retrieved May 23, 2014.
  12. ^ staff (2014). "OpEdNews - OpEdNews.Com Progressive, Tough Liberal News and Opinion Site details". Technorati. Archived from the original on May 8, 2014. Retrieved May 18, 2014.
  13. ^ Kall, Rob (March 8, 2010). "Progressive Message Won Big at Oscars". Huffington Post. Retrieved May 22, 2014.