Craig Newmark Quotes - Page 2

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• I need to make an okay living. The people who work for us need to. But after you make a comfortable living, how much more do you need? It's like I make a joke about nerd values, because I'm very much in the rich nerd tradition. And you know, we say, like, hey, people pay us for this stuff, like programming. You know, what else do we need?

  Craig Newmark

  Money, Jobs, Technology

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• A lot of publishers have close relationships with people in power. So the press, which used to speak truth to power, doesn't. The big result of that has been the erosion of trust.

  Craig Newmark

  Erosion, People, Speak

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• I rely on Taegan Goddard's Political Wire for straight, fair political news, he gets right to the point. It's an eagerly anticipated part of my news reading.

  Craig Newmark

  Reading, Political, Wire

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• We want to offer job training and mentoring and build the site with more robust, reliable and flexible technology.

  Craig Newmark

  Jobs, Technology, Training

  "From 'Craig's List' to virtual community" by Writer Elizabeth Knefel, cnn.com. March 25, 1998.

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• A lot of people, myself included, are excited about blogging and stuff like that, citizen journalism, but I do remind people that no matter how excited we are, there's no substitute for professional writing, no substitute for professional editing, and no substitute for professional fact-checking.

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  Writing, Editing, People

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• I look at what the phone company does and do the opposite.

  Craig Newmark

  Phones, Opposites, Doe

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• My take on the whole dot-com bubble was that a lot of people who wanted to make a lot of money got too excited and hyped up the commercial aspects of the Internet prematurely. I think the vision of the Internet as a democratizing medium - as everyone's printing press - is real. We got distracted from that by the mass hallucinations of the bubble.

  Craig Newmark

  Money, Business, Real

  "CRAIGSLIST / On the record: Craig Newmark". San Francisco Chronicle Interview, www.sfgate.com. August 15, 2004.

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• Okay, I'm not in the news business, and I'm not going to tell anyone how to do their job. However, it'd be good to have news reporting that I could trust again, and there's evidence that fact-checking is an idea whose time has come.

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  Jobs, Ideas, News

  "An Observation Regarding Fact-checking and Journalism From an Outsider" by Craig Newmark, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 13, 2012.

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• Milestones aren't what I think about much.

  Craig Newmark

  Thinking, Milestone

  "Why Craigslist's Craig Newmark Still Does Customer Service". www.businessinsider.com. April 11, 2011.

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• I want to help accelerate the evolution of the press because right now, newsrooms are cutting investigative journalists, and we need investigative journalists.

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  Cutting, Needs, Want

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• My understanding from talking to a lot of people in the business has been that it used to be that a newspaper was considered a community service. Now they're being run as profit centers, and they're trying to get pretty high profit margins. As a result, investigative reporting has been seen as a problem.

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  Running, Talking, People

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• I'm not in the news business and won't tell people how to do their job. I'd like to restore trust in the news business, though, and feel that restoring fact-checking will really help. News business realities mean that such fact-checking has to be practical, it has to be fast and cheap.

  Craig Newmark

  Jobs, Mean, Reality

  FaceBook post by Craig Newmark from Nov 28, 2011

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• We don't think of ourselves as do-gooders or altruists. It's just that somehow we're trying our best to be run with some sense of moral compass even in a business environment that is growing.

  Craig Newmark

  Running, Thinking, Trying

  "CRAIGSLIST / On the record: Craig Newmark". The SFGATE Interview, www.sfgate.com. August 15, 2004.

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