Update: The stories about Craig's plans apparently missed the mark. See the follow-up.

Internet Daily's MarketWatch and the newspaper industry's Editor & Publisher report that Craig Newmark -- whose Craigslist.com has been eating up a lot of what used to be newspapers' classified ad business -- plans to start delivering the news within a few months.

He told an Oxford University business school forum he wants a bottom-up approach to news, with readers helping decide which stories are the most important. (Shades of Slashdot.)

At Editor & Publisher, they sum it up this way:


There's more in Craig's blog. (Thursday note: OK, I linked to his blog, but didn't have time to go read it. But it looks like I wasn't the only one.)

And here are some other headlines and leads for the story:

Internet entrepreneur to take on traditional journalism
New Zealand Herald, New Zealand
The American internet entrepreneur who has single-handedly siphoned tens of millions of advertising dollars...

Craigslist founder has plans for online journalism
CBC News, Canada
The creator of the Craigslist online information service says he plans to shake up news reporting with a major online journalism project.

Craigslist Aims For Community Journalism
WebProNews, KY
A new project from the founder of popular online classifieds site Craigslist will extend citizen journalism to fix trust issues Americans have with journalism.

Craig's List Guru to 'Restore Trust' in Journalism
Media Channel, NY
Craig Newmark has already revolutionised classified advertising in the US with his hugely successful website, craigslist.com.

Entrepreneur taps mistrust of media for new venture
Independent, UK
The internet entfreerepreneur Craig Newmark, whose Craigslist site provided a hugely successful alternative...

The short piece in MarketWatch (forwarded to me by Chris from other Interesting People) quotes The Guardian a bit, but I couldn't find its story online. Hmm. Well, it was just a quick look. However, I haven't been there in a while, browsed a bit... and did see this about citizens with digital cameras helping to tell important stories, and this one about Facebook, which has already captured my students' attention more than news media seem to... and this item about the Web's 15th anniversary.

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