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openDemocracy’s subtitle, ‘free thinking for the world’ says it all: this website promotes democracy and human rights worldwide, bringing together reporting and comment from an incredibly wide range of writers, and with a truly international readership.
Each year its journalism attracts 3.5 million unique visitors to the site, with a core of about 100,000 visiting regularly. The audience is spread wide across the globe, split equally between the USA, the UK, the rest of Europe and the rest of the world. They are educated and influential: about a third are in governments, think-tanks, administrations and media.
As one contributor writes: ‘I write for openDemocracy for the same reasons I read it: its internationalism, its rigour of thought and the astonishing wealth of wisdom and debate in its pages. Writing for such a challenging audience and in the company of such excellent writers has a way of pulling your best work from you.
‘As a hack, writing for openDemocracy has two juicy advantages. The first is that it is very difficult to persuade the news editor of a British tabloid to take 1,000 words on the injustices of global trade rules. Secondly (and this is not for the faint-hearted), the readers do not suffer fools gladly, if at all.’ Tom Burgis, freelance journalist
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www.opendemocracy.net
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