Just found out about this. I wonder if they'll break down and hire at least 1/2 professional FEMALE journalists.
I hope that the most biased Wikipedia male trolls will not be among the "community members".
New project for whatever Gender Gap projects in Wikimedia are most effective. (Anyone want to do an analysis of those projects? I confess I'm way out of the loop.)
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/25/wikipedias-jimmy-wales-founds-wikitribune-to-... The homepage of the website states: "Articles are authored, fact-checked, and verified by professional journalists and community members working side by side as equals, and supported not primarily by advertisers, but by readers who care about good journalism enough to become monthly supporters."
If that means "one or two", I agree with you. If it means "half", I would prefer getting one that is completely professional :-) Cheers, Peter
-----Original Message----- From: Gendergap [mailto:gendergap-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Carol Moore dc Sent: Tuesday, 25 April 2017 6:05 PM To: Wikimedia Gender Gap email list Subject: [Gendergap] "WikiTribune" and gender gap
Just found out about this. I wonder if they'll break down and hire at least 1/2 professional FEMALE journalists.
I hope that the most biased Wikipedia male trolls will not be among the "community members".
New project for whatever Gender Gap projects in Wikimedia are most effective. (Anyone want to do an analysis of those projects? I confess I'm way out of the loop.)
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/25/wikipedias-jimmy-wales-founds-wikitribune-to-... The homepage of the website states: "Articles are authored, fact-checked, and verified by professional journalists and community members working side by side as equals, and supported not primarily by advertisers, but by readers who care about good journalism enough to become monthly supporters."
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On 5/27/2017 3:24 AM, Peter Southwood wrote:
If that means "one or two", I agree with you. If it means "half", I would prefer getting one that is completely professional :-) Cheers, Peter
If WikiTribune is hiring 3 editors, 1 or 2 would be good. Your inference that it is hard to find even one woman who is completely professional is questionable.
Since the foundation itself is hiring and is committed to more women, I'd like to think it should not reflect the male dominance and even sexism of current journalism hiring practices.
Now it is true a lot of women are discouraged from journalism even at the college level by hostility of male journalists and editors, not to mention the far higher number of nasty letters to the editors or readers emails to them. It's the sexism of the internet world.
But those women who make it through often are more professional than guys who fly through on the fact they're good old boys.
-----Original Message----- From: Gendergap [mailto:gendergap-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Carol Moore dc Sent: Tuesday, 25 April 2017 6:05 PM To: Wikimedia Gender Gap email list Subject: [Gendergap] "WikiTribune" and gender gap
Just found out about this. I wonder if they'll break down and hire at least 1/2 professional FEMALE journalists.
I hope that the most biased Wikipedia male trolls will not be among the "community members".
New project for whatever Gender Gap projects in Wikimedia are most effective. (Anyone want to do an analysis of those projects? I confess I'm way out of the loop.)
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/25/wikipedias-jimmy-wales-founds-wikitribune-to-... The homepage of the website states: "Articles are authored, fact-checked, and verified by professional journalists and community members working side by side as equals, and supported not primarily by advertisers, but by readers who care about good journalism enough to become monthly supporters."
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