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25
Apr 2017

Wikitribune comes to Pevensey Bay: the game changing community based web platform that will deliver the daily news

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The announcement by Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, that he is to launch Wikitribune, in 29 days time, a news site that will be building community content, is being seen as game changing in the world of the mainstream media and national newspapers.—Bay Life, 25 April 2017

BBC 27 April 2017: Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales creates news service Wikitribune
 GUARDIAN 27 April 2017: Crowdfunded online publication from Jimmy Wales will pair paid journalists with army of volunteer contributors
TELEGRAPH 27 April 2017: Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, is launching a crowd-funded news service to help combat fake news.

We are the hyperlocal press. Radical idea?
“Wikitribune will change the way in which local people in Pevensey Bay receive their daily news. We will be sourcing from Wikitribune to deliver the news and contributing to the platform as a local news source. Our broadsheet, Bay Life: The Journal, will be the first hyperlocal newspaper in Sussex to deliver the news working with Wikitribune, helping to build the news site with a sense of community”.
—Bay Life, 25 April 2017

You are the editor. Radical idea?
Wikitribune takes professional, standards-based journalism and incorporates the radical idea from the world of Wiki that a community of volunteers can and will reliably protect and improve articles. Wikitribune is a news site with a sense of community.”
—Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, 25 April 2017

WIKITRIBUNE, 29 DAYS TO LAUNCH

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