OpEdNews

In early 2003, Kall had heard a Colin Powell speech about why the United States "had" to go to war with Iraq and felt that Powell's reasons were disingenuous. Wishing to "publish the Truth", Kall began a personal blog which developed into OpEdNews. == Editorial philosophy ==

OpEdNews' goal is to be holistic, to cover politics, arts (movies, books, music, theater, etc.,) sciences, health, mass media, business, technology, sports, travel, citizen journalism and various strange and unusual stuff. OpEdNews uses a custom built content management system designed by founder Rob Kall, Opednews is one of 4500 websites indexed by Google News. == Editorial staff ==

Senior Editorial Board: • Executive editor: Rob Kall • Managing editors: Sheila Samples, Meryl Ann Butler, Scott Baker • Senior editors: Joan Brunwasser, Josh Mitteldorf, Jerry Policoff, Marta Steele, ==Recognition==

OpEdNews founder Rob Kall is ranked by Mediaite as one of the top 200 online/print columnists. The site was a nominee in the 2007 Blogger's Choice Awards for 'Best Political Blog', 'Best Blog Design', and 'Best Education Blog. In 2013, Opednews (new media) and founder Rob Kall became the first media winners of the Pillar Human Rights Award for International Persons of Conscience for supporting whistleblowers and the first amendment, awarded by the 2013 Whistleblower Summit for Civil & Human Rights as hosted by ACORN 8 and Federally Employed Women-Legal Education Fund (FEW/LEF). == References ==