Mozilla and the Knight Foundation have announced that they’re spinning out its OpenNews program as an independent body, six years after its inception.
OpenNews was launched as a collaboration between the two organizations back in 2011, serving to connect developers, designers, and journalists to explore new ways to combine the principles of “open-source” with traditional journalism.
OpenNews has placed more than 30 fellows in around 20 newsrooms around the world, including at the New York Times and the BBC, and has built a “global community of more than 1,100 developers and reporters,” according to Mozilla. One example to emerge from the program is Tabula, a data extraction tool that helps journalists convert…