Wikitribune venture will not address journalism's underlying issues

Jimmy Wales's crowdfunded experiment seems to intend to use practices already well-established elsewhere "The news is broken, but we have figured out how to fix it." These are the opening words spoken by Jimmy Wales in a fundraising video for his new newsgathering venture, Wikitribune. One might think it inadvisably bold to kick off a crowdfunded campaign for an evidence-based journalism site with a nakedly unverified claim. Or perhaps it is incredibly smart. If we have learned anything about th...