Trent’s “i’ve read Convergent Journalism readings” Blog

Can wikinews, a site based on the successful model of the wikipedia, be an independent and objective source of news?

- Citizen journalists report first hand at disaster scenes, uploading images directly from the scene
- News related blogging – random acts of journalism?
- Discussion pages on wikinews are there to debate if news is newsworthy (for editorial reasons)
- Blogs are temporal – wikinews is more spacial in structure (hard to work out recently updated pages)
- As wikipedia has articles at en endpoint with multiple points of views, traditionally news is the start of a debate for different perspectives – not an endpoint. The wiki model prevents this by design