Welcome to ReinventingClassifieds.com! This is a new website and initiative that has as its aim resurrecting and reinventing the newspaper classifieds business.
Is that an audacious goal? It feels that way. When I’ve mentioned this project to professional colleagues, the common response has been a sarcastic “Good luck with that!”

Anyone interested in the future of classifieds should keep an eye on Everyblock.com, a new company founded by journalism-geek extraordinaire Adrian Holovaty. The company’s work in adding all manner of information to online maps is particularly relevant to classifieds, though we’ll have to wait a while before the open-source system they’re working on will be […]

The latest annual report from the Project for Excellence in Journalism, “The State of the News Media 2008,” is out, and it paints a dire picture of the newspaper industry. Much of the reason things are so dire, of course, is because newspaper classifieds are in significant decline.

To save you from plowing through the massive […]