Jun 20th, 2007 | Media 2.0 | No Comments
From Mark Potts, who blogs at Recovering Journalist, comes a fantastic collection of quotes from the CEO of CareerBuilder, the job-listings site that is co-owned by a number of newspaper chains including McClatchy (the quotes come from a synopsis of the CEO’s comments at PaidContent). I know that CEOs are paid to talk tough and dismiss their competition, but this is a little much:
“I don’t think there’s a free model in the future… If CraigsList were trying to manage 2 million jobs and 22 million job seekers, it would be very difficult for them to match those two sides up. Quality is like beauty; it’s in the eye of the beholder.
Almost anyone who comes to our site is a quality applicant. It takes 200 engineers who are focused 24/7 on matching those 22 million applicants with the right employer. You don’t get that in a free business. It doesn’t impact our business today.”
Keep on whistling, friend.
Jun 11th, 2007 | Media 2.0 | No Comments
In his excellent list of 10 things we should realize about the newspaper business, Ryan Sholin mentioned that it isn’t Craig Newmark’s fault that newspapers have been losing ground in classified advertising. Dan Kennedy takes issue with that argument in a recent post of his own — and Howard Owens responds here that he thinks Dan is wrong and Ryan is right (following all that?).
For whatever it’s worth, I just wanted to throw my support behind Howard on this one: newspapers failed to respond to customers or think creatively about their classified businesses until craigslist came along and showed them how. That is not Craig Newmark’s fault — it is the newspapers industry’s fault.
May 7th, 2007 | Media 2.0 | No Comments
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