Open News Network is a free news service based in San Jose, California. Founded in 2003, the Open News Network was developed to provide a free and independent news medium as an alternative source for corporate news.

Open News Network features a range of news and columns developed and published by community citizens for the purposes of providing objective news to the masses.

Open News Network has two major goals:

• Provide community news to the community by the community
• Provide a medium to achieve true objective news

( Please register / sign-up at our website http://www.opennewsnetwork.org/register for free to become an Open News Network news agent and / or columnist to publish news or columns about your community or about our country or about the world. The free registration page also could be reached from our home-page by clicking on the red link: "Customize / Submit News", then clicking on the link: "Register FREE" )

Open News Network believes that all news is subjective. However by providing a medium for citizens to contribute different perspectives of the same news our readers, our community, can decide for themselves what the real story is.

Instead of employing on staff writers and contributors, Open News Network provides a medium for objective news to be achieved through the contributions of everyday citizens. Its goal is to reach community members and empower them to become their own news agents and columnists to share their opinions and research.

Contributors can post articles covering a wide range of topics from the national level down to news within their neighborhood. Let's say that there is an emergency in your neighborhood but you are at the office. You can check the Open News Network and find up to date news that directly affects your life. That's the kind of service we want to provide to our subscribers..

Open News Network protects the privacy of its readers, news agents and columnists using a high-encryption web-site for their private information, and allow the readers, news agents and columnists to publish under aliases or pseudonyms. Open News Network features the following sections for community journalists: