Articles tagged: gatekeeping

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   We asked a whole journalism conference what it wanted, out loud

   By Patrick Boehler, Madison Karas, and Emilia Ruzicka

   Posted on September 14, 2026

   At SRCCON in Minneapolis this July, we got to run a small test. With the OpenNews team’s support, we ran two anonymous live polls: one during the opening session on the first morning, and a second at the closing session the next afternoon.

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   Our gatherings could be so much better

   By Patrick Boehler and Madison Karas

   Posted on February 4, 2026

   The same speakers present the same slides about the same problems to the same audience, year after year. New or outside voices rarely make it into these conversations, because who counts as a “key” person gets defined by the group itself. The validation is circular, and that’s exactly the problem.