LAT's Interview with Craig Newmark of Craigslist

Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist got interviewed about the future of journalism in the LA Times. Let’s not forget that newspapers are struggling in part because of the ad revenue lost to Craigslist. Not that we don’t love the list…because we do.

Here’s part of the interview after Huffington Post is mentioned:

Jon Healey: That’s a great business model too — you don’t pay your writers.

Newmark: There is that, and I am one of them. But we’ll see, then, looser, weaker networks of talented writers who maybe wind up being some of your natural allies who may feed into your organization or similar.

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