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Craigslist and Nola.com: Information as News
Craigslist and Nola.com: Information as News
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The best reporting in the world — no hyperbole, the best reporting in the world — this week came from the web division of the New Orleans Times Picayune, nola.com. Information — missing person reports, safe and alive person reports — became news. And it became a source, even, for rescue teams, more accurate than anything else they had to go on.
Craigslist, after Katrina, became a forum for finding the missing and housing the saved, and what you find on Craigslist are stories as compelling as anything on CNN. Maybe what communities want in a time of crisis is good information, and maybe detailed, accurate information makes the best story. Craig and Jeff helped invent two new ways of collecting and distributing information; Jon is perfecting it right now in the Crescent City.
Jon Donley
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Editor, nola.com
Craig Newmark
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Founder and Customer Service Representative, Craigslist
Author, Craigblog
Jeff Jarvis
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Author, Buzzmachine