Craig Newmark

Craig Newmark
Born	December 6, 1952 (1952-12-06) (age 58) Morristown, New Jersey, United States
Alma mater	Case Western Reserve University
Known for	Founder of the website Craigslist

Craig Alexander Newmark (born 6 December 1952) is an Internet entrepreneur best known for being the founder of the San Francisco-based international website Craigslist.

Biography

Newmark was born in Morristown, New Jersey and graduated from Morristown High School, in Morristown, New Jersey, in 1971. He is Jewish.^[1][2] Upon graduation he attended college at Case Western Reserve University, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1975 and a Master of Science degree in 1977.^[3]

Newmark is a vocal advocate of keeping the Internet free. In 2006 he donated $10,000 to a non-profit group, NewAssignment.Net, which plans to combine the work of amateurs and professionals to produce investigative stories on the Internet.^[4]

Newmark resides in San Francisco's Cole Valley and is active at Craigslist in customer service, mostly dealing with spammers and scammers.^[5] In 2009, he became a member of the Wikimedia Foundation advisory board, is a member of the New America Foundation Leadership Council^[6] and serves on the board of the Sunlight Foundation. In 2009, Newmark was named an honorary patron of the University Philosophical Society of Trinity College, Dublin along with Matt Mullenweg.

References and notes

1. ^ "Craig Newmark interview". Somethingjewish. http://www.somethingjewish.co.uk/articles/1665_craig_newmark_interv.htm. Retrieved December 16th, 2009. 
2. ^ "Web guru hails from Morristown", Daily Record (Morristown), June 26, 2004.
3. ^ http://blog.case.edu/case-news/2008/03/25/degrees
4. ^ Usborne, Ryan (November 23, 2005). "Entrepreneur taps mistrust of media for new venture". The Independent. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article328715.ece. Retrieved 2006-02-08. 
5. ^ "The Josh Kornbluth Show: Craig Newmark" (SWF). KQED-TV / Google. October 17, 2005. pp. 27 minute runtime. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8625237967610875547. Retrieved 2007-02-08. 
6. ^ Leadership Council. New America Foundation.

Further reading

• Usborne, Ryan (November 23, 2005). "Entrepreneur taps mistrust of media for new venture". The Independent. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article328715.ece. Retrieved 2006-02-08. 
• Tingle, Greg (November 24, 2003). "Interview with Craig Newmark". Media Man. http://www.mediaman.com.au/interviews/newmark.html. Retrieved 2006-02-08. 
• "Web guru hails from Morristown". Daily Record (Morristown). June 26, 2004. http://www.dailyrecord.com/news/articles/news1-Craigslist.htm. Retrieved 2004-04-29. ^{[dead link]}

External links

• craigblog, Craig Newmark's personal blog
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Craig Newmark on Charlie Rose

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Name	Newmark, Craig
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Date of birth	December 6, 1952
Place of birth	Morristown, New Jersey, United States
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