Looking for work? You might try craigslist.org in your area!

This was clipped from the 12/07/05 email newsletter sent to me from the Portland Area Radio Council (PARC).

Check out www.craigslist.org to see whether they are operating in your city or town, or other areas where you might want to live and work. (This splash page is for San Francisco ONLY -- look to the RIGHT side for LINKS to other cities and towns.) This site is completely free if you are LOOKING for work or other items. We've had some good luck selling items in our area.

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Craigslist vs. Newspaper Classified (Radio Ink, 12/6/2005)

CNNMoney reports that online classifieds Web site Craigslist plans to begin charging employers to post job listings in four new cities: Boston, Washington, San Diego and Seattle. It's also set to collect a fee of no more than $10 from New York City real estate brokers for their property listings.

But despite the coming charges, Craigslist is a major concern to the newspaper business because Craigslist's numbers are huge. Ten million Craigslist users click on an estimated 6.5 million classified postings each month.

Craigslist currently makes all its money – 2005 revenues are in the neighborhood of $20 million – by charging employers in three cities a fee for listing jobs: $75 in San Francisco, $25 in New York and Los Angeles.

While nationwide classified revenues continue to grow, in cities where Craigslist is well established, the news is ominous for newspapers. In San Francisco, for example, the industry newsletter “Classified Intelligence Report” found that the major newspapers lost more than $50 million in classified revenue in 2004 because of the Craigslist effect.

Despite the fact that I'm out of work partly because of them. My former employer, a major metropolitan newspaper, lost a huge amount of advertising revenue to Craigslist, so they started reducing the workforce. Oh well...

enter the .com file extension, it defaults to craigslist.org anyway.

...but that's not why I'm not there anymore. I worked in the Classified Advertising Department. Thanks for the correction.

the White House. Those classified ads helped pay for that work.

The newspapers are already feeling heat from their shareholders and RW advertsers angry at their coverage.

Pretty soon we will only have RW newspapers supported by the corporations benefitting from RW agenda.

name one major newspaper in america that isn`t center republican to neocon right. the only free news is the internet and in the future that is where news will generate. look at the amount of news that the msm covers days or weeks after someone releases info to responsible internet news sources. newspapers sell soap not news, so if the advetisers or the public don`t like the brand they are selling the newspaper goes broke.

We are about to lose KnightRidder as a news organization.

Jonathan Landay and Warren Strobel will not get the same freedom to report at any of the other corporate news organizations. They will be restrained, probably financially, and their work will not get the timely investigative support it needs.

starting up a news page (?) that the users vote up the stories to the front page.

try a search if you are interested.

btw, use the list for my area daily, lots of stuff and some jobs (not in the classifieds) listed.

dp