Internet entrepreneur to take on traditional journalism

Posted by tuxchick on Nov 23, 2005 12:48 PM EDT
New Zealand Herald; By David Usborne
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The American internet entrepreneur who has single-handedly siphoned tens of millions of advertising dollars from newspapers in the United States by creating a wildly popular online alternative for classified listings warned this week that he intends to launch a similar challenge to the relevance of traditional journalism.

Serving notice to trained reporters everywhere to watch their backs is the thoroughly estimable Craig Newmark, who established himself as a pioneer of the cyber-era ten years ago when he launched craigslist.org, in volume terms now the seventh-most visited internet site in America just after eBay.

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