Craig Newmark: Fact-checking should be part of how news organizations earn trust
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 restoring trust to the new business via fact checking might be an idea whose time has come. It won't...
NewsTrust dives into the fact-check business with expanded Truthsquad
Just in time for the 2012 elections, the cottage industry of media fact-checking is ramping up. That latest addition is Truthsquad, which began last year as a pilot project of NewsTrust. TruthSquad will differentiate itself from its peers by bringing in the crowd, combining the talents of professional journalists with the eagerness (if not competitiveness)...
Craig Newmark: CraigConnects for journalism
It's hard not to be curious when the man some have vilified as mortally wounding the classifieds business in newspapers gets into the business of supporting journalism. Craig Newmark's most recently announced project, CraigConnects, is, as best as I can tell, a way of funneling Newmark's attention capital towards (mostly) nonprofit organizations. In the way...
Craig Newmark: CraigConnects for journalism
It's hard not to be curious when the man some have vilified as mortally wounding the classifieds business in newspapers gets into the business of supporting journalism. Craig Newmark's most recently announced project, CraigConnects, is, as best as I can tell, a way of funneling Newmark's attention capital towards (mostly) nonprofit organizations. In the way...
Craig Newmark: CraigConnects for journalism
It's hard not to be curious when the man some have vilified as mortally wounding the classifieds business in newspapers gets into the business of supporting journalism. Craig Newmark's most recently announced project, CraigConnects, is, as best as I can tell, a way of funneling Newmark's attention capital towards (mostly) nonprofit organizations. In the way...
FedTalks 2010 Conference – A Look Inside
Bringing together members of the government as well as representatives from the technology and communications industries, this past Tuesday’s FedTalks 2010 conference in Washington D.C. was a success both on-line and offline. If you didn’t catch our live tweeting the event from @bivings, check out the latest instance of Slurp140 we created specifically for Fedtalks...
Fact-Check or Die! Why News Media Survival Depends On Checking The Facts
Traditionally, trust in the news media was established through good work - work that was also right. But distrust in the press grows when traditional journalistic values are forgotten. Right now, people mistrust the press a whole lot - but fact-checking might be the way to win that trust back.
Curation. Crowd Sourcing. And Sexy Aliens.
You may have noticed that lots of the folks that make media for a living are pretty unhappy these days.If you listen to Craig Newmark, the king of digital classifieds and the namesake of the now ubiquitous Craigs List - the newspaper folks he's talked to don't blame him for the demise...
News Aggregator Daylife Ties Up With Getty: $4 Million Investment
Daylife, a news aggregator that launched a few years ago with a good deal of hype but has since retreated to the back pages, has landed another investor: Getty Images has bet $4 million on the company, which has raised some $12 million to date.How Craigslist continues to thrive
Wired has a great feature piece on Craig Newmark and his inexplicably dominant Craigslist. The piece is a character study, trying to understand the philosophical world view that would allow such a site that is so antithetical to the normal rules of business and customer service to exist.
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Livestream: Saving Journalism in Aspen
Right now the Aspen Institute is holding a forum called Of the Press: Models for Preserving American Journalism, featuring media thinkers like NPR President Vivian Schiller, Washington Post Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli, Google VP of Search and User Experience (and Very Long Titls) Marissa Mayer, new media pan-guru Jeff Jarvis, MediaNews CEO Dean Singleton, former...
