Molly Stark Dean

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.

Wrote a disability pride month newsletter to market Rolli.

Vault Community Strategy

Rebranded CNN NFT newsletter resulting in a +23% increase in subscribers.

Reuters TV The Road to 1m viewers: I gave this presentation to a room full of journalists in China.

Create audience development and social media strategy to unify two communities to increase brand reach.

Flipboard + CoinDesk: Presented this to a Chinese delegation in New York City.

Women journalists are underrepresented on Wikipedia, one of the most-visited English language websites in the world. This leads to issues related to safety, credibility, and recognition and income. Women Do News is dedicated to elevating the voices and profiles of women journalists online.

A major disruption in Amtrak service north of the city continued Monday due to structural issues with a parking garage on the corner of 51st and 10th Avenue in Hell’s Kitchen. I was a witness on Fox5 for this story.

Thru a relationship I controlled with Flipboard, the #BitcoinAt10 multimedia project was the #1 referral traffic that consisted of 70% new users.

Q&A with Social Media Strategist Molly Stark Dean

Evolution of a Story: I taught this class to journalists in China.