Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales: "I have this crazy idea that people will pay for free news"

The Times Tech Podcast

• Episode: Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales: "I have this crazy idea that people will pay for free news"
• Website: The Times Tech Podcast
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• Duration: 00:35:04
• Published: 2018-01-19 05:00

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, to talk about his plan to save the news industry with his latest startup Wikitribune (3:15), what’s wrong with ad-driven media (4:35), crowdsourcing journalism (6:35), charity as a business model (11:20), why a pay wall won’t work (13:05), ‘disrupting’ the encyclopedia (14:50), growing up in an entrepreneurial family (16:30), why Wikipedia’s predecessor failed (19:30), not being a billionaire (24:40), being a pathological optimist (26:10), how blockchain could change everything (28:40), why it won’t work for Wikipedia (30:25), living in London (31:25) and why Brexit is the “dumbest thing ever” (32:35).

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