Wikipedia founder lays off all journalists from his new media website

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales’ digital media company, the WikiTribune, is shifting its focus away from traditional news-gathering and moving to a “community oriented” strategy that prioritizes working with contributors.

In the process, the company has laid off its 12 original editorial staffers, reports The Drum, following the April departure of CNN and Reuters journalist Peter Bale, who initially assembled the team. The WikiTribune began in August of last year, and Wales and his co-founder Orit Kopel posted a note to the site earlier this week first mentioning the “major personnel changes” and the reframing of its focus on the community.

“As this project is so radical, the only way to learn is to try, make mistakes, fix them and move forward,” Kopel told The Drum in an interview. “The main thing that we learned so far is that in order to implement our vision, we should give the community the full confidence that WikiTribune is based on their contributions, while the professional team is here mainly to serve them where needed.”

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https:// www.theverge.com/2018/10/23/18015174/wikipedia-founder-jimmy-wales-wikitribune-journalist-lay-off-community-focus

The Supreme Court declined to overturn a North Dakota law requiring voters to present an ID listing their address. It could impact tens of thousands of rural voters — many of them Native Americans who live on reservations

The Supreme Court declined this month to overturn a North Dakota law that requires voters to present an ID listing their residential address at the polls.

The decision could have a negative impact on tens of thousands of rural voters — many of them Native Americans who live on one of the states five reservations, where residents are not required to have a street address.

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Native Americans have long faced unique challenges relating to voter suppression. They were the last to gain suffrage in 1924 and couldn't vote in states like Arizona, New Mexico and Utah until 1948.

"If Native people are constantly being turned away at the polls and having this many problems, it actually [discourages] people from voting further," Danielle Ta'sheena Finn, external affairs director for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe (@StandingRockST) and a citizen of the tribe, tells Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson. "My grandma has been turned away at the polls with her passport in 2014, and she felt like, 'Why is it worth going back?' "

http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/10/23/north-dakota-voter-id-law-native-americans?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=2051

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The Supreme Court declined to overturn a North Dakota law requiring voters to present an ID listing their address. It could impact tens of thousands of rural voters — many of them Native Americans who live on reservations

The Supreme Court declined this month to overturn a North Dakota law that requires voters to present an ID listing their residential address at the polls.

The decision could have a negative impact on tens of thousands of rural voters — many of them Native Americans who live on one of the states five reservations, where residents are not required to have a street address.

Native Americans have long faced unique challenges relating to voter suppression. They were the last to gain suffrage in 1924 and couldn't vote in states like Arizona, New Mexico and Utah until 1948.

"If Native people are constantly being turned away at the polls and having this many problems, it actually [discourages] people from voting further," Danielle Ta'sheena Finn, external affairs director for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe (@StandingRockST) and a citizen of the tribe, tells Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson. "My grandma has been turned away at the polls with her passport in 2014, and she felt like, 'Why is it worth going back?' "

http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/10/23/north-dakota-voter-id-law-native-americans?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=2051

"A very bad original concept, carried out poorly and the cover-up was the worst in the history of cover-ups…somebody really messed up," Trump says about the Saudi operation which killed journalist Jamal Khashoggi — Trump…..

doesn't that sound like Khashoogi was taken by (Q team) or someone on their side and is being brutally interrogated while his son visits King… Trump calling it the worst cover up but there is no evidence of anything…best cover up