It seems wrong, somehow, to be bickering in such a beautiful, serene space. “I love birds for reasons unknown,” Newmark says. Soon, Craigslist ruled the world. In addition, it misquoted Craig Newmark as saying “… don’t amplify this information”, when he said “don’t amplify disinformation”. Eileen Whelpley. “News deserts” are spreading across the US with alarming implications for democracy. [26] In 2015, Variety reported that he contributed to the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton. During an hour-long conversation, his eye keeps wandering to the small garden where mourning doves, house sparrows, cardinals, blue jays and “a hopefully limited number of pigeons” come and go. Eileen and Charlie moved to Indialantic in the 70’s and she continued working for causes dear to her heart; beautification, the humane treatment of animals and a vigorous involvement with her fellow former intelligence officers in AFIO serving many volunteer positions. The scale and scope of the crisis become evident when you understand Newmark’s ornithological obsession. Eileen Whelpley Family. Indeed, he remains convinced that the internet is still a positive for humanity. Thus he firmly rejects any notion that all the philanthropy – an estimated $50m in the past year including to New York Public Radio, new publication the Markup and local journalism efforts such as the American Journalism Project – is an attempt to assuage guilt, a reach for atonement. The US, in a way, is lucky. "It's the best room in the house. He got married six years ago, and even before that his bride, Eileen Whelpley, promised a makeover. The walls are painted pale green. Senator Marco Rubio, No. "This room is far too nice for that. I've heard that word before," Newmark said. Newmark was born in Morristown, New Jersey, the son of Joyce and Lee Newmark. All the mechanical elements, including the water heater and furnace, have been concealed behind doors or handmade panels. [13] He made a $20 million endowment to the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, which was subsequently renamed the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. "I would hope no one would come in here with computers," said Latta, looking at nobody in particular. A full-length mirror on casters with a Japanese-influence frame was designed by Kuriyama specifically for the space. E-MAIL: info@beachfuneralhome.com. One of the most surprising aspects of the room is how light it is, given that it is largely underground and has just one tiny window. Speaking of the president, Newmark, who has donated to Democratic presidential hopefuls Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren, gives an unorthodox answer when asked what he thinks of his term in office so far. Female. “I don’t know,” is his default response. 4.1 Net worth; 4.2 Politics; 5 References; 6 Further reading; 7 External links; Early life . Lee Newmark{ "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "Person", "name": "Lee Newmark", "gender": "Male" }, Joyce Newmark{ "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "Person", "name": "Joyce Newmark", "gender": "Female" }, Jeff Newmark{ "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "Person", "name": "Jeff Newmark", "gender": "Male" }, Computer Engineer "This room is far too nice for that. The consensus among the small group gathered in the new space is that it should not be tarnished by electronics, whether a television set or a computer. Much of it is manufactured. While his home in New York, a former stable dating back to 1848, is certainly swanky and he has another place in San Francisco, Newmark no longer owns a car but prefers to travel in taxis and on public transport. A part of the home's foundation that jutted into the room has been transformed into a long built-in wooden bench and the screens hide shelving for storage. This ambivalence was captured by a New York Times headline last October that described Newmark as a “newspaper villain” and another last month that called him a “new friend to journalism”. View Eileen Whelpley's Family Tree and History, Ancestry and Genealogy. Whelpley says the success of this project has given her the remodeling bug and she has had Latta begin converting part of the home's garage into another livable space. A set of open shelves under the high window has been designed in a gentle cascade formation, and an open alcove in the center of the room helps retain a sense of airiness and includes two display shelves. 1689 S. Patrick Drive https://spacecoastdaily.com/2012/11/eileen-whelpley-gould-passes-away-nov-3 • This article was amended on 15 and 16 July 2019. “I am very passionate about understatement. The whole area is bathed in a diffused glow provided by light fixtures hidden behind the fiberglass shoji screens and by two custom-made boxed ceiling lights. “That takes an active imagination that I don’t understand. Something vital. The obituary was featured in The Journal News on March 18, 2011. A set of open shelves under the high window has been designed in a gentle cascade formation, and an open alcove in the center of the room helps retain a sense of airiness and includes two display shelves. "[10], In January 2017, TechCrunch reported that Newmark donated $500,000 to Wikipedia's attempt at "reducing harassment and vandalism on the site and improve the tools moderators use every day to keep the peace. [18][19], Newmark splits his time between San Francisco's Cole Valley and the West Village in New York City. Eileen was born in Wilmington, NC and spent her youth between Wrightsville Beach, NC and Charleston, SC. You have to have specialised knowledge on a beat like disinformation or crime or birds. ", "Relax? By SpaceCoastDaily  //  November 10, 2012. [5][6] He also operates Craigconnects,[7] a site that publicizes charitable organizations. ", "Relax? You have to know how to write well. "Maybe that could be the sewing room," she said. He has given significant sums to protect the future of news – and rejects the idea his website helped cause journalism’s financial crisis, Sun 14 Jul 2019 09.00 EDT I'm interested in the birds that visit me," he said, referring to the bird feeders he has set up on the deck outside his home office upstairs. “Americans are much more reasonable and moderate than what you might guess when you see a little Twitter war. “I was way over-optimistic because I didn’t realise the need for professionalism in the manner that I talked about. Eileen’s early forties brought many happy changes;  Charlie’s retirement as a Colonel, their move to Washington DC where Charlie became a Deputy Director of NASA, and the birth of her only child, Amoret. Craig Alexander Newmark (born December 6, 1952) is an American billionaire internet entrepreneur and philanthropist best known for being the founder of the website Craigslist. As word spread, the group expanded. The ascent of Craigslist, Wikipedia and others also led some to predict that user-generated content would conquer all, providing the ultimate expression of grassroots democracy. “I can’t fault them for not getting around to doing the fact-checking. "It certainly shows how with the right skills you can transform a dark room into an inviting space.". Select from premium Eileen Whelpley of the highest quality. [25], Newmark has donated to the presidential campaign of Democratic Senator and former United States Secretary of State John Kerry. From online or printed sources and from publicly accessible databases. While Silicon Valley VCs and bankers were telling me I should become a billionaire, I decided no one needs to be a billionaire — you should know when enough is enough. Some express gratitude to Craigslist for life-changing opportunities to find a spouse or a job. Because news is hard; you’re going to make mistakes, then you correct them and Bob’s your uncle.”. Signup for Space Coast Daily News Email Alerts! I've heard that word before," Newmark said. If this sounds like a swipe at Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News, Newmark ducks an invitation to be critical. "I would hope no one would come in here with computers," said Latta, looking at nobody in particular. But do note that it is not possible to be certain of a person's genealogy without a family's cooperation (and/or DNA testing). They get amplified: there’s multiple levels including conspiracy sites, then news sites which don’t care about fact-checking. “Now, my gut tells me that Craigslist must have had some effect, but apparently it’s pretty tiny. With the 2020 election approaching see the Trump family tree. Before long, the list included job vacancies and places to rent. "The room had dirty walls, a cement floor, an exposed fiberglass ceiling, exposed ducts, cords, one fluorescent light and lots of dust," Whelpley said. [14] Newmark also has a private charitable foundation, to which he contributed $50 million in 2016. Enjoy Space Coast Daily, Brevard County’s Best and Most Read Magazine, WATCH: Injury Care Clinic Features Doctors Experienced in Evaluation, Treatment of Auto Accident Injuries, CANDIDATE PROFILE: Retired U.S. Air Force Col. Bob Harvey Seeks To Be City of Cocoa’s Next Mayor, Space Coast Daily TGIF Show – Highlights Live Shows, Village Bier Garten and Obloy Family Ranch in Merritt Island, HOT OFF THE PRESS! Looking back now, would he have done anything differently? Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, and his girlfriend, Eileen Whelpley who is hanging from a yoga inversion swing, show the newly completed yoga room built in Newmark's basement on Friday, Sept. 4, 2009 in San Francisco, Calif. Hidden lighting gives the impression of daylight coming through a shoji screen in Craig Newmark's newly built basement yoga room on Friday, Sept. 4, 2009 in San Francisco, Calif. September 28, 2020 Space Coast Daily News – Brevard County’s Best Newspaper, WATCH: Col. Bob Harvey, Candidate For Mayor of Cocoa, Talks About Revitalization Project in Historic Cocoa Village, HOT OFF THE PRESS! Mostly it’s just the effect of TV news. “We’re low on bird seed now,” Newmark observes anxiously. “It’s a small amount of disinformation originating in some of the social media platforms used by foreign adversaries and their domestic allies. “And that I knew that I wasn’t as funny as I think I am.”. I understand the English do not drink very much. His new home in Greenwich Village, New York, contains everything from an ancient Roman mosaic to 18th-century British portraits to Simpsons figurines to artworks by his beloved Leonard Cohen. "He will if we're going to continue with this relationship. [20] He describes himself as a non-practicing, secular Jew, joking that his rabbi was the late singer Leonard Cohen. Democratic candidate for the Vice-Presidency of the United States. It hasn’t worked out. It seems wrong, somehow, to be bickering in such a beautiful, serene space. But I’m guessing that the purpose of many Twitter wars is to polarise people and, in fact, we’ve seen that happen because you can often trace some of the fighting groups to the same location. Occupations. For good measure, there are numerous photos of birds on the walls and a papier-mache model, made by his 11-year-old nephew. “It allows people of goodwill to get together and work together for common good. Eileen parachuted into occupied France and completed covert operations behind enemy lines for the precursor to the CIA. Most online outrage is faked for profit'. He also took ballet and jazz dance classes in an attempt to meet women, but suffered a hernia and was hospitalised. So I decided on a minimal business model, and that's worked out pretty well. "The instructions were ill-defined," said Russ Latta of Latta Construction in San Francisco, who oversaw the project. I’m helping my family and some friends live comfortably. But you can only quote me on that if you put it in the appropriate quotation marks. [24], In 2016, Newmark joined with the progressive RAD Campaign and Lincoln Park Strategies (founded by Democratic Party stalwart Stefan Hankin) to commission a poll examining user perceptions about social media conflicts during the 2016 election year. Eileen was born in Wilmington, NC and spent her youth between Wrightsville Beach, NC and Charleston, SC. “We’re observing that the doves are not that nice to each other and we also see them fighting with the sparrows. The increase in autistic individuals seeking employment has led to a growing need for management researchers to consider autism in the workplace. He is a self-declared “nerd of the old school, 1950s style”, squirrel watcher and sci-fi fan who, sitting in a jacket, trousers and slippers, cheerfully admits he is “simulating” social skills. Arrangements entrusted to BeachFuneralHome.com. "We thought we'd be lucky to turn this dead space into a clean storage area.". They could avoid giving airtime or space to people they know routinely disinform and they can just avoid amplifying disinformation.” The new journalism centres he is funding are considering whether journalistic ethics codes should explicitly say: “Don’t amplify disinformation.”. For example, I spent some time in Edinburgh last year and I now really like haggis. "I saw it straight away," he said. Click here to Start FameChaining. In 1993, he moved to San Francisco to work for Charles Schwab, where he was introduced to the Internet—which at that time was still relatively free of commercials. Princess Diana Princess of Wales. “I do wonder why he hasn’t talked to the economists or industry analysts involved,” he says, android-like, before pivoting to a paean for CUNY’s work in giving a break to people from different ethnic, religious and economic backgrounds and boosting diversity in newsrooms. ", "Consumer Reports Launches New Digital Lab", "Craig Newmark Joins Girls Who Code's Board of Directors - girlswhocode", "Craig Newmark Founded Craigslist To Give Back, Now He's A Billionaire", "Newsonomics: Craig Newmark, journalism's new Six Million Dollar Man", "Major Democratic donors press Congress for campaign finance reform", "Poll: 57% of Americans Feel Trump Supporters Have 'Very Aggressive' Online Behavior", "Craig Newmark, Tech Genius, Is an Obama Man", "Hillary Clinton's Big Hollywood Donors Help Raise $46 Million-Plus", Index of Craig Newmark’s writings on uFollow, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Craig_Newmark&oldid=977618639, Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board members, Morristown High School (Morristown, New Jersey) alumni, Articles with dead external links from June 2019, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 9 September 2020, at 23:10. He declared it "the biggest thing in my life. Last year, Craigslist took down its personals section after Congress passed the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, designed to crack down on sex trafficking of children, which could have made the site liable to prosecution when its users broke the law. "I saw it straight away," he said. Craigslist's Craig Newmark: 'Outrage is profitable. [1] In 1971, he graduated from Morristown High School[1] and thanks to scholarships,[2][dead link] attended college at Case Western Reserve University, where he received a bachelor of science degree in 1975 and a master of science degree in 1977. To date, little organizational research has examined this area and what research does exist relies on theories imported from either general psychology (e.g., stigma theory) or reflects a view of autism as a disability. The decline is continuing and even accelerating. September 14, 2020 Space Coast Daily News – Brevard County’s Best Newspaper, HOT OFF THE PRESS! Now I think more: what are the practical problems of professional journalism? She was posthumously inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame. August 24, 2020 Space Coast Daily News – Brevard County’s Best Newspaper, HOT OFF THE PRESS! In the Bay Area, the media was especially hard hit.”. But Craig Newmark and his girlfriend, Eileen Whelpley, appear to fundamentally disagree on how the newly remodeled basement room in Newmark's Parnassus Heights home is to be used. "Craig spends too much time on electronics," Whelpley said. The walls are painted pale green. BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – A gorgeous, gregarious and gracious lady, Eileen Whelpley Gould, died peacefully with her family at her side on November 3, 2012. You know people are busy and a lot of people in journalism have been told by their managers that fact-checking may not be critical.”, When the City University of New York (CUNY) named its graduate school of journalism after Newmark following a $20m donation, there was a backlash. Bad actors interfering with our elections may have had some success but their success is not complete and it means that people of goodwill are fighting back vigorously. Available for everyone, funded by readers. [22] He called a prior $400 million Forbes estimate of his net worth "bogus." [12], Through Craig Newmark Philanthropies, Newmark has contributed more than $40 million to journalism initiatives since 2015. Standing in what clearly evolved into something much more sophisticated than a storeroom, both Newmark and Whelpley say their ideas for the area were not ambitious. So that’s the basis for my optimism.”. There was talk of perhaps making it into a sewing room for when Whelpley visits. [3], After college, Newmark worked at IBM for 17 years as a programmer, living in New Jersey, Boca Raton, Florida and Detroit. You have to fact-check. Find the perfect Eileen Whelpley stock photos and editorial news pictures from Getty Images. I am still a very light drinker, but I want to not exceed the delicate sensibilities.”. “If it’s carelessness, you can tell someone: ‘Hey, you got it wrong; here’s the evidence.’ If it’s disinformation, they don’t care, they will just publish it again. People need to enlist much like in the US after the attack [on Pearl Harbor] in December of 1941, much like people during the Battle of Britain. A gorgeous, gregarious and gracious lady, Eileen Whelpley Gould, died peacefully with her family at her side on November 3, 2012. Newmark denies, however, that he was pollyannaish about the web itself, even after the much-publicised bile, poison and rancour of the 2016 presidential election and what some now call a cold civil war in the US. During her career, Whalley earned provincial, national and North American championship titles. His father, an insurance salesman, died when Craig was thirteen and his mother struggled financially,[2] moving Craig and his brother Jeff into an apartment in Jacob Ford Village. However, Newmark, who has met Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, but does not know him well, declines to criticise him or suggest Zuckerberg has created a monster. It’s all hands on deck. Newmark says the original idea was simply to create more usable space in his relatively compact home. [1] A self-professed nerd,[4] he developed Craigslist as a free marketplace where people could come together – without charge – and exchange information. "The instructions were ill-defined," said Russ Latta of Latta Construction in San Francisco, who oversaw the project. 11 UCF Knights Fall in Home Opener to Tulsa 34-26, Snaps UCF 21-Game Home Win Streak, NASA Looks to Use 3D Printing Construction for Future Infrastructure on Mars and the Moon, 34th Annual Space Coast State Fair Set For Nov. 6-22 in Viera at Space Coast Daily Park, HOT OFF THE PRESS! There are plans to put in some large eye screws for yoga ropes as well as a "whale" back bender bench, and Kuriyama will make some additional pieces of furniture for the room - a long narrow table, perhaps, to be placed alongside the bench. A service to celebrate Eileen’s magnificent life will be announced at a later time. In more current terms, it’s no one needs a billion dollars. He considers for a moment before stepping outside to see the birds. A pair of back-lit alcoves provides another source of light. The space, a soothing blend of pale poplar wood and Japanese-style shoji screens, is a work of fine craftsmanship, and Whelpley insists the Craigslist founder will be practicing yoga there. ", But back to the room. For example, we’ve seen a couple of cases where bad actors will try to really hurt a publication by engaging in lengthy, frivolous lawsuits. "I have no illusions about yoga. But the room is far from utilitarian. There was talk of perhaps making it into a sewing room for when Whelpley visits. Newmark, by his own admission not a journalist, says: “I had great hopes for citizen journalism 10, 15 years ago. “As a nerd that stayed true to his nerditude,” he says. "Craig spends too much time on electronics," Whelpley said. Explore how the celebrity world connects. Liz Hafalia/The Chronicle Show More Show Less 2 of 2 Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, and his girlfriend, Eileen Whelpley, show the newly completed yoga room built in … “People in mainstream media can just do things like fact-checking. So I’ve named them Cersei and Daenerys.”. All relationship and family history information shown on FameChain has been compiled from data in the public domain. After attendi... To read the full obituary, please visit the memorial website for Eileen Mildred Gould at Beach Funeral Homes - East. Eileen lived her life with gusto and will be remembered for her humorous stories, quick smile and generous heart. Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, and his girlfriend, Eileen Whelpley, show the newly completed yoga room built in Newmark's basement on Friday, Sept. 4, 2009 in San Francisco, Calif. A cabinet with shoji screen doors hides wires that were previously exposed in Craig Newmark's basement.

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