Wikitribune venture will not address journalism's underlying issues

Jimmy Wales hopes to bring ‘journalists and a community of volunteers together’.“The news is broken, but we have figured out how to fix it.” These are the opening words Jimmy Wales speaks in a fundraising video for his new newsgathering venture, Wikitribune.One might think it inadvisably bold to kick off a crowdfunded campaign for an evidence-based journalism site with a nakedly unverified claim.