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May 07, 2005

CraigsNews

From the AP, about the founder of Craigs List:

Craig Newmark told Associated Press editors and writers in a bureau visit, his newest fascination is community journalism.

Newmark hopes to develop a pool of "talented amateurs" who could investigate scandals, cover politics and promote the most important and credible stories. Articles would be published on Internet sites ranging from Craigslist to individual Web logs, or blogs.

This is how stuff happens. In this case, it's the classifieds eating the rest of the paper. Go, Craig! [Technorati tag: journalism]

Posted by D. Weinberger at May 7, 2005 07:43 AM

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David, thanks!

Ummm... maybe to clarify a little... can you take a look at cnewmark.com?

thanks!

Craig

Posted by: Craig Newmark | May 8, 2005 01:53 PM

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