Molly Stark Dean

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When a man suddenly stormed the stage during the keynote speech at last weekend’s Wikipedia conference in New York, the audience of well over 100 volunteer Wikipedia editors was confused. Some thought the man was protesting the website’s nonprofit parent organization because the disruption came in the middle of remarks by Wikimedia Foundation CEO Maryana Iskander. Other...

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At a time when media landscapes are rapidly shifting and AI is stealing headlines, it’s human storytelling that remains the real disruptor. Molly Stark Dean is a journalist, educator, and digital media strategist whose career spans major newsrooms, including Fox, CBS, Reuters, and CoinDesk. She now shapes the next generation of journalists through her teaching at The New School.
In this conversation, Dean talks candidly about the digital transformations ...

WikiProject for women journalists
Our official website is https://womendonews.org/.
Welcome to WikiProject Women Do News (WDN)! We raise the visibility of women, women-identified and non-binary journalists by increasing the quantity and enhancing the quality of their Wikipedia biographies. We do this in several ways:
Write new Wikipedia biographies of journalists
Edit existing Wikipedia biographies to improve their quality
Identify women journalists who should be on Wikipedia
Facilitate meet...

“Wikimedia NYC has sustained a proud local Wikipedia Day tradition since 2010, and this January 14, 2024, we were able to bring it back full-scale, for the first time since 2019. We partnered with the Brown Institute at Columbia Journalism School, with a special focus this year on wiki intersections with AI and journalism. A personal reflection on the exciting event from one of our key organizers follows.” WikiNYC’s Pharos

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Andrew Jenkins is the founder of Volterra, a social media and social selling agency. When he’s not running Volterra or teaching social media strategy at the University of Toronto, he talks to fellow entrepreneurs and the professionals who support them along their journey. You’ll learn how entrepreneurs make decisions based on gut feelings, analytics or both, and what they’ve learned along the way. You’ll gain insight from candid conversations with leaders in...

“We’re a bunch of ladies who are really tired of being left out,” said journalist Angilee Shah, founding member and board chair of Women Do News (WDN). WDN is an initiative aiming to increase the Wikipedia entries of journalists who are women, non-binary, trans – anyone who is not one of the many cis-men making up the majority of biographical entries on Wikipedia.

Since Donald Trump’s reelection, Wikipedia has been catching right-wing attacks. There have been taunts from Elon Musk, prompted by a page that described his Nazi-style salute during the inauguration. “Defund Wikipedia,” he posted on X—which, under his ownership, has positioned itself as a competing source of “authoritative” information. (“Elon Musk salute controversy” now has its own Wikipedia entry.) Other tech executives followed suit, including Aravind Srinivas, the CEO of an artificial i...

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