Craig Newmark: Relentless Focus

Geneva, 6 October 2020 — Craig Newmark is backing media organizations that are committed to public interest journalism. News organizations that support and elevate democratic ideals. Combating misinformation, analyzing how websites deploy trackers in visitors’ devices, fighting fake news, are some of the issues that are close to his heart.

What moves him? What are the challenges ahead for the news media nonprofits that he funded?

What is next? What areas will he be funding?

The UN Brief interviewed Mr. Newmark to find out more about his philanthropic endeavors.

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“A democracy cannot survive build on lies.”

Craig Newmark

Mr. Newmark spent most of his life in the tech industry as a systems engineer, first at IBM, then in the financial-services industry. In 1995 he founded Craigslist, a curated email list for his friends and colleagues to discover art and tech events in San Francisco.

Doing Well by Doing Good

The initial newsletter evolved to be an online classifieds behemoth making him wealthy beyond his expectations. His unassuming demeanor, reflection of a personality for whom the ‘greed is good’ type of Silicon Valley…