We’ve been lucky enough here at ReinventingClassifieds.com to have some smart media minds contribute their thoughts and ideas to this website on the topic of resurrecting and saving newspaper classifieds. In case you’ve missed the words of wisdom of these guest experts, we invite you to catch up. Here’s a handy set of links to […]

Hey there, innovative media/advertising thinkers. The newspaper industry needs your ideas, now more than ever! Help us figure out how to reinvent and save newspaper classifieds, and thus the industry. … We’ve got a competition going that will reward $500 to the person with the best idea. Check it out and fire up those brain […]

Are you a college student who is studying media and/or advertising? Are you innovative? Would you like to help newspapers reinvent classified advertising? … We’ve got a contest for you. Share your ideas or proposed solutions. The winning essay will win $500 cash. Check out the contest. The newspaper industry needs you! >>>

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 […]