Whew
Craig Newmark of craigslist.com says newsrooms still matter:
With all the excitement about citizens' media, it's easy to forget how important current news operations are. We have a lot of journalists there, but also, fact checkers, editors, and so on, and they perform an indispensable function.I feel that citizens' media complements that, and that professional and citizen journalists will blur together in networks of collaboration.
I'm not sure what I will have to do with this, maybe just encouraging this movement, maybe something financial. ...
He goes on to say that he doesn't even know whether his company would get involved, or just him personally. (He's not the only owner anymore.) At any rate, that vision certainly is compatible with ours.
