Craig Newmark: 'No substitute for professionalism in journalism'

At a panel discussion at American University tonight in conjunction with the Online News Association conference, called "An American Forum: The Future of News is Here, Now What?" Craigslist founder Craig Newmark said he's trying to push the state of journalism ahead by investing in a number of innovative citizen media journalism ventures. He hopes doing so will help bring more professionalism to citizen media and thus enable it to have more impact and be higher quality.

"There is no substitute for reporting,"he said. "There is no substitute for professionalism in journalism....

The model in blogging is often publish first and check later, and a little more professionalism is needed."

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