Supporting Journalism Education
Craig discusses his recent $20 million donation to a journalism school, emphasizing the importance of supporting trustworthy journalism in today's media landscape. He highlights organizations like ProPublica as examples of mission-critical work that deserve backing, illustrating his commitment to fostering quality journalism for future generations.In this clip
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Can you talk a little bit about what prompted that? Why? That's a lot of money for a journalism program, and obviously an important one to teach people how to do journalism in this day and age.
What I'm trying to do in the here and now is support a lot of people doing mission critical work in journalism.
We're here with Craig Newmark. He is well known as an entrepreneur who created Craigslist. But right now, we're talking about his philanthropy in specific right now about the $20 million he has just given to the journalism school at SUNY in New York.