Sue Gardner

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Sue Gardner (2012)

Sue Gardner (born May 11, 1967 in Bridgetown , Barbados ) is a Canadian journalist . From December 2007 to May 2014 she was the managing director of the Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco .

Life

Gardner grew up in Port Hope ( Northumberland County, Ontario ) as the daughter of an Anglican minister and school principal. From 1987 to 1990 she studied journalism at Ryerson University . Sue Gardner began her career in 1990 with the Canadian radio station Broadcasting Corporation CBC in the program As It Happens . For more than ten years she worked as a producer, reporter and documentary filmmaker for CBC Radio and for Newsworld International, which specializes in pop culture and social affairs .

In May 2007, Gardner left the Broadcasting Corporation and shortly afterwards worked as a consultant, then from December 2007 as managing director for the Wikimedia Foundation. In the winter of 2007, she organized the Foundation's move from Tampa to San Francisco.

At the end of 2011, Sue Gardner announced plans for Wikimedia projects in various interviews. Work was carried out on the development of a new user-friendly interface. This visual editor should replace the outdated and complex user interface and simplify the uploading of images, the attachment of information about copyrights and licenses or the integration of sources.

Gardner saw another focus of her work in the acquisition of authors in India , Africa and South America as well as increasing the proportion of women in the Wikimedia movement. Through training programs and campus ambassadors, she wanted to increase the proportion of women from around 8 to 14 percent to 25 percent.

In 2012, she was ranked 70th on Forbes Magazine 's The World's 100 Most Powerful Women . The profile there emphasizes that she cited the one-day blackout protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in Wikipedia.

On March 27, 2013, Sue Gardner announced that she would step down in about half a year. At the same time she stated that she wanted to work harder for a free and open Internet, either by founding a non-profit organization, lobbying or writing a book. On May 31, 2014, she left Wikimedia as managing director. Her successor was Lila Tretikov from June 2014 to March 2016 .

In May 2015 it was announced that Sue Gardner was advising the Tor project on the long-term development of a sustainable organizational structure. Since April 2019 she has been CEO of the news start-up "The Markup", which was supposed to operate non-profit data journalism . The project failed a short time later due to the widely diverging views of those involved.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wikimedia Foundation - Executive Director Wikimedia Foundation
  2. ↑ Do it for Love, really , The Globe and Mail , accessed May 13, 2012
  3. ↑ The Lavin Agency ( Memento of the original from February 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thelavinagency.com
  4. ↑ Decision of the Board of Trustees to appoint Sue Gardner as Managing Director (English)
  5. ^ Wikipedia would be better if more women were there. Time Online, accessed on May 13, 2012
  6. ↑ Wikipedia wants more female authors Der Standard, accessed May 13, 2012
  7. ^ Forbes.com , accessed August 23, 2012
  8. ^ A Driving Force Behind Wikipedia Will Step Down , The New York Times , accessed March 28, 2013
  9. ^ Sue Gardner: Wikipedia manager wants to withdraw , Spiegel Online, accessed on March 30, 2013
  10. ↑ Announcing our new Executive Director: Lila Tretikov . Article by Jan-Bart de Vreede from May 1, 2014 on blog.wikimedia.org (English)
  11. ^ Arma: Sue Gardner and the Tor strategy project. In: Blog. The Tor Project, May 6, 2015, accessed May 8, 2015 .
  12. ^ Sue Gardner: Why I'm working with Tor and First Look. May 20, 2015, accessed May 22, 2015 .
  13. ↑ Staffers resign from news startup The Markup after ouster of editor-in-chief , CNN, April 23, 2019
  14. ↑ Peter Weissenburger: Investigative startup has failed: The bitter end . In: The daily newspaper: taz . May 17, 2019, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed May 17, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Gardner, Sue
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian journalist, executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Bridgetown , Barbados