Brian Burns

One of the major issues curtailing the perceived creditability of independent (and to some extent, mainstream) online journalism is the that of trust. E.g. How objective and trustworthy is an article found on the internet, in comparison to a one printed on the front page of the New York Times?

In this article, Craig Newmark (the founder of Craigslist) seeks out a path that’ll allow for the repairing of “some current issues with trust and curation”.

I’d agree with Newmark when he says that more has to be done in terms of how quality news content is curated, developed and given prominence on the air/page/screen.

…really good journalism is buried, not curated into the front pages, and then, infrequently if at all repeated… if big news is not prominently displayed, and then repeated, its a tree falling in the forest — Craig Newmark