Craig Newmark: Don’t blame us for newspaper woes

Steve Safran May 7th, 2007

Our pals at PaidContent are at the NAA National Convention, and Staci Kramer is blogging a Charlie Rose interview with Craig Newmark of Craiglist fame. (NAA is the Newspaper Association of America.) Some quotes: (On newspaper industry troubles): “I’ve spoken with a lot of industry analysts who say our contribution to that effect has been exaggerated.” (On Craigslist): “We have no advertisers to keep happy, no investors to keep happy—which is a great relief.” (On the future) “I do have a great deal of sympathy with the people who run printing presses because I think they’re screwed. … The people who do news and the people who fact check it have great futures ahead of them.”