• by Steve Outing

    To: Craig and Jim
    From: Steve (on behalf of the newspaper industry)
    (OK, no, I do not actually speak for the newspaper industry; nor does ReinventingClassifieds.com. But I write this letter to you with the newspaper industry’s, journalism’s, and consumers’ best interests at heart. If any of those folks don’t agree with me, I’m sure they’ll let […]

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  • by Steve Outing

    Craig Newmark (do I really need to explain that he’s the founder of Craigslist?) went before a group of editors at the Washington Post this week, and here’s a short video excerpt:

    Newmark has long been saying that his network of free-classifieds sites is not a significant reason that newspapers have lost billions of dollars in […]

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