Let’s build SRCCON together
It’s time for SRCCON 2025!
On July 10 & 11, SRCCON returns to the McNamara Alumni Center in Minneapolis. We’re so excited to be with everyone for two days of amazing workshops, social sessions, and so many conversations.
Here’s what you need to know as you head into SRCCON:
↪ Check out the SRCCON schedule 🎉
↪ Read our attendee welcome guide 👋
↪ More about logistics & participation
↪ Attendee social club/info share! 🌱
About this year’s program
Here’s our official conference schedule—we’ll get started at 9am on Thursday and close by 6pm Friday. In between, there’s so much to do:
- The SRCCON program: Our workshops are community-built and peer-led. We’ll teach each other to use tech and data better, we’ll reimagine journalism culture together, and we’ll find collaborators who can support us down the road.
- Our evening program: After dinner on Thursday, SRCCON has casual sessions about life outside of work—hobbies, games, and other activities that let us hang out and connect over the things we love.
- Meals & snacks & breaks: Our program includes lunch both days and dinner on Thursday, plus plenty of snacks and drinks and long breaks so you can keep chatting.
More things to do
SRCCON attendees love to bring games, snacks, and other things to share, plus plan local activities together. Jump in here:
If you’re planning a meetup or related event while you’re in Minneapolis for SRCCON, let us know so we can share it with everyone!
COVID safety guidelines
We want everyone who comes to SRCCON to feel safe, and we know encouraging sensible precautions makes it possible for more members of our community to attend. We’ve kept an eye on journalism events since we last convened, and we’re seeing that we can come together in a group as long as we’re all doing our best to look out for others.
We will not require masking at SRCCON 2025, but some people may be masking. We ask participants to respect anyone wearing a mask, particularly in session spaces where people are gathering more closely together. We will have masks available, but we invite you to bring your preferred N95, KN95, or similar masks as well. We also strongly encourage attendees to be up to date on their vaccinations, test proactively and please consider staying home if you’re not feeling well. If you have any questions or need further information, reach out to us. Thanks for taking care of each other at SRCCON!
What you can expect at SRCCON 2025
The SRCCON program is focused on the practical challenges that news technology and data teams encounter every day.
At SRCCON, you’ll:
- Be part of hands-on workshops that reimagine newsroom tech, teamwork, leadership, community, and journalism itself—not panels where you sit back and listen, but sessions where you participate and learn.
- Connect with people who share your hopes and dreams for journalism—not just making professional acquaintances, but creating personal relationships that last.
- Bring who you are into a conference that thinks about the program, the schedule—even games & meals—as ways to celebrate everything you have to share.
SRCCON events are highly participatory, where participants come first so they can can feel comfortable digging into complex problems. The conversations that happen here come from the community and reflect its values:
- We lead change—by challenging the power structures that have failed our industry, we push for long-lasting change in our organizations, led by journalists of color and journalists in local and regional newsrooms.
- We support one another—by offering each other our expertise and empathy, we find new collaborators, help each other learn, and make our networks and organizations more resilient.
- We experiment in the open—by sharing our work and processes, we do the transformative work our organizations need to better connect with and inform our communities.
Who attends SRCCON events
Our participants represent organizations ranging from massive to tiny, and come from all over the U.S. and many other countries. SRCCON participants are developers, designers, journalists, editors, and allies: the practitioners and leaders who are transforming their newsrooms into more representative and innovative places to work. Participants come to SRCCON to change journalism by creating more intentional processes, better relationships with the communities they cover, and new ways to engage and inform people.
How much does it cost?
Ticket prices start at $295, plus ticketing fees. We’ll also offer a limited number of need-based, free scholarship tickets as well as $500 travel or caregiving stipends.
SRCCON events don’t have open sale dates or lotteries. If you want to come to SRCCON 2025, our call for participation is how to let us know.
What’s next
The OpenNews newsletter is a great way to stay up-to-date on tickets, our call for participation, and other event information. You can also keep in touch with us on social media: We’re on BlueSky and LinkedIn. If there’s anything else you’d like to know about our events, we’d love to hear from you.
About us
SRCCON events are produced by OpenNews. We connect a network of developers, designers, journalists, and editors to collaborate on open technologies and processes within journalism. OpenNews believes that a community of peers working, learning and solving problems together can create a stronger, more responsive, and inclusive journalism ecosystem. Incubated at the Mozilla Foundation from 2011-2016, OpenNews is now a project of Community Partners.