Craig Newmark is a Web pioneer, philanthropist, & a leading advocate on behalf of trustworthy journalism, veterans & military families, & other civic & social justice causes. In 2017 he became a founding funder & executive committee member of the News Integrity Initiative, administered by the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, which seeks to advance news literacy & increase trust in journalism.

In 2016 he created the Craig Newmark Foundation to promote investment in organizations that effectively serve their communities & drive broad civic engagement at the grassroots level. Amid growing concerns about the proliferation of fake news in the context of the presidential campaign, one of the foundations first donations went to the Poynter Institute to create the Craig Newmark Chair in Journalism Ethics. Newmark is widely credited for his leadership in promoting news we can trust.

Craig serves on the board of directors of a range of nonprofits including Blue Star Families, Center for Public Integrity, Consumers Union/Consumer Reports, Girls Who Code, Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans of America, Poynter Foundation, Sunlight Foundation, VetsInTech, & Women in Public Service Project. He also serves on the Board of Overseers of the Columbia Journalism Review. He serves on the advisory board of nearly twenty other nonprofit organizations including Donors Choose, EFF, New America Foundation, Voto Latino, Wikimedia Foundation, Women Who Tech, & many others.

In 1995 Craig started curating list of San Francisco arts & technology events he personally emailed to friends & colleagues. People were soon calling it "Craig's List, & when Craig turned it into a company he monetized minimally, opting for a business model that prioritized "doing well by doing good." Today more than 5 billion ads have been posted on the site, the vast majority for free. While Craig remains chairman of craigslist, he has not been involved in management since 2000.

In 2015 craigslist received an award from the FBI in recognition of its undisclosed cooperation with the bureau in combatting human trafficking. Craig was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2012. In 2013 he was named Nerd-in-Residence by the Department of Veterans Affairs Center for Innovation.

Born in Morristown, New Jersey in 1952, Craig earned degrees in computer science from Case Western Reserve University. He lives in San Francisco & enjoys bird- & squirrel-watching, science fiction, TV, & Dad jokes.

Craig communicates regularly through his own blog at craigconnects.org & through Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Medium, & HuffPost. He also travels the country speaking about issues & appearing on behalf of organizations he supports.