New wiki launched for digital journalists

Posted by Martin Stabe on 10 August 2007 at 13:10
Tags: Journalism, Wikis

Christian Dunn, head of digital news at the Evening Leader in Wrexham, has set up a wiki for digital journalists to gather knowledge and exchange ideas.

Unlike blogs or forums, a wiki allows all users to contribute to each page on the site. Dunn is hoping to get other digital journalists to join the site and contribute to it.

“We’re not wanting anyone to give away trade secrets or anything like that - just give a helping hand and bit of advice to others in the same kind of business,” Dunn wrote in a press release today.

“I’m sure many of us are trying to work our way around similar problems which we could help each other with - without affecting the hits on our own sites.

“There are bound to be other blogs, forums and websites out there discussing similar things, so if you own one, or know of a good one, sign up with us and create a link to it,” he wrote.

There certainly are plenty of good blogs devoted to this topic — dozens of them — so trying to bring their authors’ collective knowledge together is one place is a very good idea.

There are already several simlar efforts elsewhere. The Online Journalism Review also runs a wiki about online journalism issues, and there is a Wikia site called Journawiki.

Another effort to pool knowledge of online journalists is the Digital Editors Network, a project supported by the the Department of Journalism at the University of Central Lancashire, It has a blog and a group on Facebook.

Tags: Journalism, Wikis