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Mainstream media is at its lowest point in over three decades, forced to fend off charges of plagiarism, cronyism, fabrication and political bias. Can anything be done to stop the rot? The folks behind Wikipedia think they have the answer.By Matthew YeomansIt’s March 28th, 2005 and the newsroom is buzzing with today’s major breaking news story: an earthquake measuring 8.7 on the Richter scale has

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I'd like to explain exactly how this story was put together and how it differs from the citizen journalism that I write about.The most important point to acknowledge is that this story benefitted from being afforded the reporting and research resources that comes from writing for a major publication.I spent the best part of a month researching, reporting and writing the Wikinews story and I

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