We are dedicated to finding and creating ways to distribute news that are web-based, publisher-hosted, and open source.
Most news-industry innovation efforts to date have focused on newsgathering and storytelling -- areas of obvious interest to reporters and editors. While we applaud those efforts, DNDWG is focused on what happens after the traditional work of a journalist is done -- the delivery of news to actual consumers.
For two decades, news organizations have essentially ceded this job to large public tech companies, ultimately to disastrous effect. Working journalists, being great problem describers by nature, have recently documented in great detail all the failings and repercussions of this approach for both the news industry and society at large.
DNDWG is dedicated to solving problems around news delivery, not just describing them, in collaboration with journalists, technologists, and other stakeholders.
This repo includes documentation to provide a basic introduction to DNDWG and facilitate collaboration among community members. In addition to this readme file, there is also a folder where anyone can place ideas for specific products or projects.
All information here is free to use and share with appropriate attribution under Creative Commons 4.0 license. For full text of the license, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode