Staff
Jason Pramas, Editor/Publisher
David Goodman, News Editor
Jesse Kirdahy-Scalia, Tech Editor

Contact Info
Open Media Boston
33 Harrison Ave., 5th Flr.
Boston, MA 02111
info@openmediaboston.org

Non-Profit Sponsor
Open Media Boston is a project of Media Working Group, a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization.

Professional Organization
Open Media Boston is a member publication of the New England Press Association.

Mission Statement
Open Media Boston is an online media outlet dedicated to regularly publishing fair and accurate news, views, arts, and entertainment content in text, image, audio and video formats from a progressive political perspective for the Boston, Massachusetts, USA metropolitan area. We are an audience-centered publication that will constantly solicit submissions and commentary from the general public using the latest social media technology while maintaining professional journalistic standards at all times. We will always strive to balance open participation with editorial control in the service of this goal.

How OMB Works
A. People check out OMB on the web;
B. They decide to post a comment or maybe submit some original content;
C. To do so, they have to sign up for an OMB User Account;
D. Once their User Account is set up, they can post comments to any existing content on the website, or post their own new content via the Content Submission Form;
E. When new content is submitted it automatically goes to the Open Forum - which is the open posting area of OMB;
F. Selected relevant content that meets basic journalistic, editorial, and production standards is published to the OMB Front Page (other material remains in the Open Forum [see User's Guide section 2.2 for more info]);
G. Rinse. Lather. Repeat. And that's how we'll build our own progressive news, views and arts portal.

OMB Table of Organization
Viewers
Anyone who checks out OMB.

Users
Anyone who participates in OMB by getting a free User Account and posting content and/or comments. Users may be paid for any of their work that is accepted to the OMB Front Page - if funds become available for that purpose in the future. That would certainly be cool.

Staff
Regular contributors to OMB who have had several pieces of content published to the Front Page, and others that have the requisite experience, may be invited to join the OMB Staff - which gives them the privilege of publishing their own material to the Front Page. Will be paid as soon as funds become available.

Editors
Members of the Editorial Board - these folks control all content on OMB. Staff and others that have the requisite experience may be invited to become OMB Editors. Will be paid as soon as funds become available.

Site Administrators
The people that control all aspects of the OMB website architecture. Generally tech folks with significant web development experience. Some graphic designers may also be granted site administrator privileges on occasion.

The User's Guide to Open Media Boston
Just click here to get to our User's Guide page or choose it from the navigation bar on the left of every page.

The OMB Blog
Check out our blog periodically for OMB site-related musings, announcements, appeals, calls to action and random thoughts from OMB staff and editors. You can always choose it from the navigation bar on the left of every page.

Interested to start an Open Media in your city or region?
Drop us a line at info@openmediaboston.org and we'll chat. FYI, any prospective Open Media editors will generally need to have some significant media background; so we'll want to see a resume and samples of recent media work from anyone who'd like to start an Open Media branch in another area of the U.S. or world.

Initial Site Developers
Aaron Couch, Chris Fernandez, and Angela Pineros