Staff
Jason Pramas, Editor/Publisher
David Goodman, News Editor
Jesse Kirdahy-Scalia, Tech Editor
Ana Traynin, Staff Reporter
Elizabeth Washburn, Staff Photographer
Diana Mai, Staff Photographer
Joequnna Butler, Greater Egleston High School Intern

Interns Emeritae
Liz DeWolf, Trinity College
Elise Filo, Boston University Center for Digital Imaging Arts

Contact Info
Open Media Boston
33 Harrison Ave., 5th Flr.
Boston, MA 02111
info@openmediaboston.org
617-506-9515

Non-Profit Sponsor
Open Media Boston is a project of Media Working Group, a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization.

Funders
Open Media Boston is brought to you by generous support from the Grassroots Infrastructure Trust, the Haymarket People's Fund, the Solidago Foundation, and viewers like you.

Professional Organization
Open Media Boston is a member publication of the New England Newspaper and Press Association.

Mission Statement
Open Media Boston is an online metropolitan news publication dedicated to regularly publishing fair and accurate news, views, arts, entertainment and technology coverage for the Boston, Massachusetts, USA area in text, image, audio and video formats. We are an audience-centered publication with a progressive editorial stance that will constantly solicit submissions and commentary from the general public using the latest social media technology while maintaining professional journalistic standards at all times. We will always strive to balance open participation with editorial control in the service of this goal.

News Cycle
Open Media Boston runs on the equivalent of a weekly news cycle - sending out a weekly update to a large number of people early Monday morning, shortly after the weekly OMB editorial is published. Content must be published to our Open Forum by Sunday at 5 p.m. to be considered for inclusion in any given week's update.

How OMB Works
A. People check out OMB on the web;
B. They decide to post a comment or maybe submit some original content;
C. To do so, they have to sign up for an OMB User Account;
D. Once their User Account is set up, they can post comments to any existing content on the website, or post their own new content via the Content Submission Form;
E. When new content is submitted it automatically goes to the Open Forum - which is the open posting area of OMB;
F. Selected relevant content that meets basic journalistic, editorial, and production standards is published to the OMB Front Page (other material remains in the Open Forum [see User's Guide section 2.2 for more info]);
G. Rinse. Lather. Repeat. And that's how we'll build our metro news portal.

How to List an Upcoming Event on OMB
Register users are welcome to post events to our Upcoming Events calendar. For instructions, please see our User's Guide.

The User's Guide to Open Media Boston
Just click here to get to our User's Guide page or choose it from the navigation bar on the left of every page.

The OMB Blog
Check out our blog periodically to view content by OMB staff and friends on anything and everything that comes to their minds. You can always choose it from the navigation bar on the left of every page.

Interested to start an Open Media in your city or region?
Drop us a line at info@openmediaboston.org and we'll chat. FYI, any prospective Open Media editors will generally need to have some significant media background; so we'll want to see a resume and samples of recent media work from anyone who'd like to start an Open Media branch in another area of the U.S. or world.

Initial Site Developers
Aaron Couch, Chris Fernandez, and Angela Pineros

Complaint Department
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