The elapsed time between the occurrence of an event and a critical mass of reporting on it has decreased considerably, setting off social media and a variety of other dissemination conduits in an exponentially more powerful manner and within hours, sometimes minutes after the event. If you can get your voice heard or across within this storm, you have already influenced the manner in which a story circulates, even if the analysis or reporting is sub-standard or inadequate. If, however, even with a bit of a delay, you are able to provide substantive and sustained analysis, you not only can influence the life-cycle of a story or an event, or influence the initial perception of a greater number of people’s, but you can indeed set a references point against which further reporting is measured within particular circles. This is what we were able to do at Jadaliyya with respect to several important events, from Egypt to Bahrain to Turkey—admittedly, in reference to certain audiences, primarily the academic audiences. The story of creating the Jadaliyya Turkey Page, and the aftermath, right around June 2013, is instructive, as we were able not only to beat other more powerful venues in reporting the events, but also provide the analytical context within which events took place, thereby capturing the attention and interest of the more informed observers, and much of academia. The important takeaway here is that these new forms of knowledge production are not just filling a gap between academia and the general public: they are also slowly redefining what constitutes standards in both realms (journalism and academia) by not only producing better knowledge, but also by scrutinizing the process of knowledge production.