Can Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales fix the news?

Traditional media is broken, the tech entrepreneur says. But will his new reader-funded service be any better?

The Financial Times
Financial Times
Published in
11 min readDec 1, 2017

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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales stands in the doorway to his office Friday, Dec. 1, 2006 in St. Petersburg, Fla. — AP Photo/Steve Nesius

By John Thornhill

Jimmy Wales has already triggered one global information revolution. Now he is plotting a second.

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