About

Wikinews is an online news service established in 2004 with the motto, "the free news source you can write".

It is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation, a United States-based 501(c)3 registered non-profit charity. The Foundation is also responsible for Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; one of the most popular websites on the Internet.

Almost-unique among Wikimedia projects, Wikinews has specific policies permitting original reporting. This site, Wikinewsie.org, has been set up specifically to assist in such endeavours. The project has policies whereby trusted community members are accredited and considered favoured freelance contributors.

Wikinewsie.org, owned and managed by Brian McNeil, provides non-public collaboration space, reporter email facilities; and, an independent site for independent journalists. Contributors strive to provide the highest quality of news reporting anywhere on the Internet. Whether through synthesising comprehensive, neutral news from multiple sources, gathering facts on-the-scene local to our reporters; or, directly contacting—or confronting—the people in the news, Wikinewsies are not out to sell you a product, but to keep you informed.

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