FUTURE OF NEWS ENCYCLOPEDIA

The Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University has launched a new journalism industry encyclopaedia, aiming to catalogue the "most important players and innovators in the evolution of journalism" and "provide a centralised source for background, context, and the latest news about them". "Future of news encyclopaedia" Encyclo currently has 184 entries covering a variety of organisations, including online news sites, newspapers, magazines, broadcast networks, and technology companies. Each Encyclo entry contains: a narrative section that explains what the organisation does and why it is important; a list of peers, allies and competitors; an archive of the Lab's own coverage; a collection of links curated by the Lab's staff; and a list of recent stories from around the web powered by Mediagazer. Users cannot directly edit the encyclopaedia's pages in the style of Wikipedia, but they are encouraged to "make Encyclo better" by submitting suggestions.