What can Wikinews take from this and work on?

A repeated concern is that we’re always ‘behind the times’ when we do synthesis reports. There’s a degree of truth to that, but taking material from multiple mainstream reports should make our coverage more comprehensive, if albeit a little later.

Second, is how can we work with others? Blogs, Indymedia, and so on all generally have a bias and/or axe to grind. This runs counter to NPOV.

Third, original reporting. Considering the size of the contributor base I think we do pretty well on this. Are there ways we can attract more people to do investigative work? Should we be organising things to have an online ‘Wikinews Rolodex’ for accredited reporters?

Can’t think of anything else from this or the discussion on foundation-l – was surprised that was so reasonable and not “damn Wikinews! We can do news in Wikipedia!”.

Brian.

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Ragesoss, who has written Wikinews OR, has some thoughts about Wikinews on his blog.

There is also a live thread about Wikinews on foundation-l.

--SVTCobra

----- Original Message -----
From: Fred Bauder
Date: Saturday, May 9, 2009 5:24 pm
Subject: Re: [Wikinews-l] News Corp to charge for newspaper websites
To: Wikinews mailing list

> We'll pay what something is worth, to us. Murdock controls the Wall
> Street Journal and The Times, of London. They are both pretty
> good. I
> paid $20 a year for full access to The New York Times. That is
> what I can
> imagine paying for a high quality on-line publication. This is
> not a
> solution for the average paper in trouble, such as The Rocky Mountain
> Journal. They may not be worth much to anyone.
>
> Fred Bauder
>
> > Good luck to them - somehow i can't imagine most people paying
> for it.
> >
> > -bawolff
> >
> >
> > On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Jon Davis
> wrote:
> >> Well it would bring new meaning to 'free' in our tag line
> "The free
> >> news
> >> source you can write!"
> >>
> >> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 16:53, wrote:
> >>>
> >>> If this idea spreads it could fundamentally change the way
> we create
> >>> most
> >>> of our articles ...
> >>>
> >>> Guardian article:
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