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Open Salon
CategoriesPolitics, social issues, popular culture
First issueApril 17, 2008
CompanySalon Media Group, Inc.
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Websiteopensalon.com

Open Salon is a hybrid blogging platform and social network site started by the Salon Media Group, Inc. According to Salon Editor-in-Chief Joan Walsh "Open Salon gets rid of traditional gatekeepers, and makes our smart, creative audience full partners in Salon's publishing future."[1] After registering, users can start blogging immediately as well as rating and commenting on other posts. The Open Salon home page functions as a real-time magazine cover and is updated throughout the day. The best Open Salon content is featured on the cover of Salon.com.[2]

On May 29, 2009, Open Chats debuted--short, 5-minute interviews with OS contributors. Saturn Smith appeared in the first feature.[3]

Honors

Open Salon was a finalist in the 2009 National Magazine Awards under the interactive feature-- a category that recognizes an outstanding feature or section of a website that uses multimedia technology, tools, community platforms or other interactive formats to deliver or share content such as news, information and entertainment, rather than practical instruction or advice.[4]

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