Craig Newmark looks like the kind of guy who would help you move your apartment, sell your furniture, get a job, or help you find that cute girl you saw on the subway. He does not look like the kind of guy who would kill the newspaper industry. And yet, he has been responsible for [...]

Traditionally, trust in the news media was established through good work – work that was also right. But distrust in the press grows when traditional journalistic values are forgotten. Right now, people mistrust the press a whole lot – but fact-checking might be the way to win that trust back.

You may have noticed that lots of the folks that make media for a living are pretty unhappy these days.

If you listen to Craig Newmark, the king of digital classifieds and the namesake of the now ubiquitous Craigs List – the newspaper folks he’s talked to don’t blame him for the demise of the newspaper business. It’s cool.

Right now the Aspen Institute is holding a forum called Of the Press: Models for Preserving American Journalism, featuring media thinkers like NPR President Vivian Schiller, Washington Post Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli, Google VP of Search and User Experience (and Very Long Titls) Marissa Mayer, new media pan-guru Jeff Jarvis, MediaNews CEO Dean Singleton, former [...]

A few weeks ago the UK newspaper the Guardian broke the news that Rupert Murdoch‘s newspaper had been quietly settling cases out of court — cases which would have revealed that the journos working for his papers had to be using “criminal methods” such as wire-tapping and hacking into emails, to get stories. Rupert denied any knowledge of any wrongdoing. Now, it looks like the sins of the son may soon be visited upon the father.