On 24 and 25 March, the Guardian will be opening its doors to thousands of members of the public for a special series of events. The Guardian Open Weekend, as well as offering a wealth of talks, workshops, activities, music and food for all ages, serves to launch, address and embody a new way of thinking about journalism. Open journalism, as portrayed in the Guardian’s ‘Three Little Pigs‘ advert this week, embraces the explosion of opinion, comment and reaction to events that characterises news in the age of social media. From eye witness videos shot on phones, through to the sharing of specialist or inside knowledge, our sources of information are now incredibly diverse. Recognising that, the Guardian aims to provide a credible, but essentially ’open’ platform for this broad and vast range of contributors.

The implications of all this, what it means philosophically, creatively and financially for the Guardian and its readers, will be ‘openly’ debated over the two days. And it will be our job to capture those discussions, as well as some of the fun that is going on around it. Look out for live tweets of our scribing over the course of the weekend.