: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.

{{blockquote|OEN is a publication for the people. In the evolution of it I listened to the readers, writers, and editors. The more I listened to these people, the better the site did. Hardly anything is assigned – it's just people writing about what they want out there, and expressing what they care about. Oped News is written by regular people. Watchdog organizations, whistle-blowers, and people interested in social responsibility like us because we're inclined to publish them. One of the main purposes of Oped News is to give the people who know the real truth an opportunity to be heard. We get between 1000 and 2000 articles submitted each month.|{{sic}} Rob Kall }}

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, produced by populum.com. It includes features not found in other blog/media content management sites, such as an image search and insertion program that finds creative commons images and inserts them in content with attribution automatically included, a multi-level editing system that allows editors with different degrees of responsibility to access a queue of submitted articles and edit then accept or reject them. The site has over 50 editors who volunteer their time to review hundreds of submissions each month.{{cite news|last=Phillips|first=Marina|title=A Voice For Truth – Rob Kall|url=http://omtimes.com/2012/03/a-voice-for-truth-rob-kall/|access-date=May 8, 2014|newspaper=OM Times Magazine|date=March 23, 2012}}

Opednews is one of 4500 websites indexed by Google News.{{cite web|last=staff|title=Member/Writers Guidelines|url=http://www.opednews.com/populum/writersguidelines.php|publisher=opednews.com|access-date=May 18, 2014}}

Senior Editorial Board:{{cite web|last=staff|title=OpEdNews Masthead|url=http://www.opednews.com/populum/masthead.php|publisher=opednews.com|access-date=May 19, 2014}}

• Executive editor: Rob Kall{{cite news|last=Spritzler|first=John|title=Beware of Dangerous Articles by Rob Kall of OpEdNews|url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1404/S00235/beware-of-dangerous-articles-by-rob-kall-of-opednews.htm|access-date=May 22, 2014|newspaper=Scoop|date=April 30, 2014}}
• Managing editors: Sheila Samples, Meryl Ann Butler, Scott Baker
• Senior editors: Joan Brunwasser, Josh Mitteldorf, Jerry Policoff, Marta Steele,

OpEdNews founder Rob Kall is ranked by Mediaite as one of the top 200 online/print columnists.{{cite web|last=staff|title=The Mediaite Influence Index: Rob Kall - #178 among Print / Online Columnists|url=http://www.mediaite.com/power-grid/person/?q=Rob+Kall|publisher=Mediaite|access-date=May 20, 2014|archive-date=May 23, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140523230930/http://www.mediaite.com/power-grid/person/?q=Rob+Kall|url-status=dead}}

The site was a nominee in the 2007 Blogger's Choice Awards for 'Best Political Blog', 'Best Blog Design', and 'Best Education Blog.{{cite web|last=staff |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070509044224/http://www.bloggerschoiceawards.com/blogs/show/21137 |archive-date=May 9, 2007 |title=2007 Bloggers choice award nominees|url=http://www.bloggerschoiceawards.com/blogs/show/21137|work=May 9, 2007|publisher=bloggerschoiceawards.com|access-date=May 7, 2014}}

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).{{cite web|last=McCray|first=Michael|title=Whistleblower Summit Civil & Human Rights Conference July 29-31, 2013, Pillar Award Presentation|url=http://www.acorn8.com/|publisher=ACORN 8|access-date=May 22, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140518150508/http://www.acorn8.com/|archive-date=May 18, 2014|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last=McCray|first=Michael|title=CBC Chair Marcia Fudge, Senators Ron Wyden, Rand Paul and OpEdNews / Rob Kall honored with the Pillar Human Rights Award|url=http://freepress.org/article/cbc-chair-marcia-fudge-senators-ron-wyden-rand-paul-and-opednews-rob-kall-honored-pillar|access-date=May 22, 2014|newspaper=Columbus Free Press|date=July 26, 2013}}{{cite news|last= McCray|first=Michael|title=CBC Chair Marcia Fudge, Senators Ron Wyden, Rand Paul and OpEdNews / Rob Kall honored with the Pillar Human Rights Award|url=http://www.opednews.com/articles/CBC-Chair-Marcia-Fudge-Se-by-Michael-McCray-130725-375.html|access-date=May 20, 2014|newspaper=OpEdNews|date=July 25, 2013}}{{cite news|last=staff|url=http://www.blogtalkradio.com/envision-this/2013/10/24/rob-kall-change-from-the-bottom-up |format=audio link|title=Rob Kall -Change from the Bottom Up|access-date=May 20, 2014|newspaper=Envision This |date=October 23, 2013}} [http://www.opednews.com/articles/Rob-Kall-s-Vision--A-Tran-by-Burl-Hall-Books_Change_Energy_Interviews-131110-706.html transcript]

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