What’s of interest? Open Journalism Network
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Open Journalism Network is a free-to-use archive of journalistic footage gathered from our network of contributors around the world.
As journalists working on videos in low-resource newsrooms, we wondered what it would take to create a free wire service of editorial footage. After years of refining the idea and processes, we received a Magic Grant from the Brown Institute for media innovation at Columbia Journalism School which made it possible to build this website.
The website is built to make journalists and nonfiction video creators’ lives easier. We publish our own footage, commissioned from journalists all over the world, under a CC BY license. This license allows creators to use our footage in whatever way they like, as long as they provide appropriate attribution. We also show search results from other footage libraries — both free and paid — so that our users don’t have to spend valuable time checking each source individually. We clearly label which footage is ours, and which is from other sources.
Open Journalism Network is a project by InOldNews, a media development organization founded by Sanshey Biswas and Manon Verchot. InOldNews was launched in 2020. The founders started working on the project by gathering footage themselves whenever they travelled to a new country to conduct trainings for journalists. They recorded establishing shots of government buildings, markets, historical monuments, museums and city streets. These were uploaded to existing platforms that garnered over 48 million views and over 200,000 downloads. Since then, the project has received support from organizations including Internews’ Earth Journalism Network, the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Columbia Journalism School and others.
Where is it?: https://www.openjournalism.network
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