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Sue Gardner is a Canadian journalist, not-for-profit executive and business executive. She was the executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation from 2007 to 2014, and co-founded The Markup in 2018.
- The Backstory
- The Lessons
- Why It Matters
- The Long Conversation
- Looking Ahead
When the Knight Foundation asked Sue Gardner to write an articleon the rather earnest subject of "the future of public broadcasting," her initial reaction was "meh." But she was curious: is it really over for public broadcasting? Does it even matter anymore? Did it ever? So she dove into the research, traveling internationally, consulting with hist...
According to the research Gardner examined, public service media compared to commercial media produces: 1. more hard news 2. more international news 3. more domestic politics 4. more current affairs programming 5. more coverage of public policy issues 6. reporting that is less sensationalist and more balanced 7. stories that focus on policy substan...
People everywhere are increasingly disillusioned with how things are run. The Edelman Trust Barometerstarted measuring the level of public trust in institutions in 2001. In 2017, it recorded its single biggest one-year drop ever: 53 per cent of people around the world say that they believe the current system they're living under is failing them, th...
For Gardner, the real measurement of success for a public media organization is its social and cultural impact, not economic benefit, and therefore not easily reducible to short-term metrics like ratings or market shares. "To paraphrase [nineteenth century British writer and thinker] Matthew Arnold on the nature of poetry: public broadcasting is th...
There's plenty of sobering, if not downright depressing, data out there when it comes to the state of journalism and "the public conversation." But Gardner sees hope, which she bases on what she's experienced firsthand: Wikipedia. It's not shackled to any sponsor's expectations. It's relatively inexpensive, because it's without bells and whistles —...
Feb 20, 2011 · Sue Gardner, executive direction of the Wikimedia Foundation (the non-profit that runs Wikipedia and several other free knowledge sites), wrote a blog post discussing 9 reasons why women don’t edit Wikipedia: […]
Sue Gardner builds organizations that give people access to the information they want and need. Her main areas of interest are technology, media, gender and freedom. In 100 words. Sue Gardner is a special advisor to the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that operates Wikipedia.
Jan 11, 2011 · The person tasked with steering Wikipedia's growth is Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation. A feisty former journalist and senior director of CBC.ca, Gardner was...
Gardner's roots are in journalism, graduating from Ryerson University with a journalism degree and acting as head of Canada's national public broadcaster, CBC.CA, prior to joining the Wikimedia...
Sue Gardner reflects upon the explosive growth of the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia and its other free knowledge projects during her six years of leadershi...
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