We use open source tools. A small staff works with a large group of writers who are paid based on performance. The key is to monetize pages enough so income equals outgo with a bit left over. The New ...

The University of Missouri Journalism School's recent experiment with a "citizen journalism" site--which combines journalism's rigorous vetting process with the freewheeling nature of blogging--has ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. This past weekend, the Brown Institute at Columbia and Hacks/Hackers, a nonprofit, put on a three-day event called the Open ...

The first article mentioning the phrase “open source journalism” was apparently published in Salon magazine in 1999, describing an experiment that had been run by Jane’s Intelligence Review, a U.K.

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Niharika Mandhana is chief correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, based in Singapore. She focuses on deeply reported and visually compelling stories, often layered with open-source journalism. She ...

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For every yin, there’s a yang; for every action, a reaction; and for every piece of proprietary software, there’s an open source alternative. Or something like that. There are potential downsides to ...