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citizen journalism
Subway Rider Offers To Help Man Put Penis Back Into Pants
The subway does the strangest thing to people. For example, sometimes, the penises of men will escape their pants! This is a strange phenomenon that's only well-documented in retrospect. Until now. Uncensored flasher action, after the jump.
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Jobs in Hell
'Westchester Is the Bestchester Is an Allegory of ...'
Huzzah, the time has come for yet another "Awful Craigslist Media Job Ad of the New Depression." This one has a riddle!
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public relations
Staring Into the Craigslist Cesspool
"Craigslist killer" Philip Markoff was arraigned on grand-jury charges that include first-degree murder, robbery and two counts of armed kidnapping. As if Craigslist users needed another reason to feel jumpy. More » -
Conservative Journalism
Bush Slams Obama in Horrendously Edited Washington Times Exclusive
George W. Bush spoke critically of Barack Obama in a Washington Times story being pushed hard by Drudge tonight, a story so big and important that the Times didn't bother to insert quotation marks before posting it to their website. More » -
newspapers
Wanted: Intern to Edit Pulitzer Prize-Winning Paper While Editor Is on Vacation
Do you have a car? Are you able to "work long hours"? Are you willing to sell yourself into journalistic indentured servitude for less than half a pittance? Here's your chance to edit a Pulitzer Prize-winning paper! More » -
Content is king
Media Jobs '09: Craigslist Serfdom
The media job market is tough. But there are always freelancing opportunities on Craigslist! Right? Right! Terrible, degrading freelance opportunities. Follow these onerous submission guidelines and you too could one day earn literally dozens of dollars, by writing! More » -
scams
Nigerian Scammers Adapt to the Recession and Are Now Targeting the Unemployed
As if it's not hard enough being unemployed right now, Nigerian scammers are trolling Craigslist, wasting the jobless' precious — OK, not so precious — time with fake employment offers. Hopefully no one's gullible enough to send money. More » -
jobs of all kinds
Now You Too Can Do Phone Sex and Live in a Sexologist's House
Are you broke like everyone else and in need of shelter? Would you want to live in some lady's house and sometimes do "telephone sex therapy" in exchange for free rent and maid service? Well then sexpert Susan Block (sorta maybe NSFW) has the job for you! More » -
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sex trade
Craigslist's Brilliant Defense of Its Hookers
Law-enforcement officials have been slamming Craigslist's prostitute ads for years. CEO Jim Buckmaster's response has been benign: We don't profit from the ads, we're very nice and friendly with the cops, etc. No more. Push Buckmaster too hard, and he will cut you, as South Carolina just learned.
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jobs
Wingwoman Needed to Help Dude Score Chicks; $30 an Hour, No Free Drinks
Need a job, lovely lady? No, no, it's not prostitution, I swear. You just go out with a guy as his "wingwoman" and steer other girls towards him, and fend off other guys trying to horn in on his chicks. Not wanting to fuck him yourself should be easy!: More » -
Media Crack
Build An Entire Magazine, Get
In your total ripoff Tuesday media column: the worst media internship offer in at least a couple days, flackery invades the media (moreso), and a J-school student would rather not help solve a murder: More »NothingCredit -
odd jobs
Which 'Creative/Tech Entrepreneur' is Seeking a 'Muse, Confidant and Life Coach' on Craigslist?
Looking for a job? Has anyone ever told you that you have muse-like qualities? Do you have a driver's license and 8-24 hours free each week? If so have we got the job for you! More » -
Jobs For Literary Wingnuts
Glenn Beck, Lord of the Stupid, Trolling Craigslist for a Writer
Sometimes life can just be endlessly perplexing. Like when sane, rational people listen to Glenn Beck's maniacal rantings and they wonder, "whereforth dost this particular strain of lunacy cometh?" Now we know with absolute certainty. More » -
servicey
Get Paid to Tweet, Facebook and Comment on Blogs!
Jobs! Everybody needs one to pay for booze and porcelain figurine collections and such, right? We can't all be Ben Silverman and douche our way to the top! So we've been keeping an eye out! More » -
sex trade
Craigslist Clarifies: It Wants to Be Paid to Get You Laid
Here's the backwards result of the legal crusade against Craigslist: The site never used to make money from its "erotic services" ads. But the service tells Valleywag that it's now planning to profit from porn. More » -
sex trade
Craigslist Employees Will Be Paid to Read Sex Ads All Day
Under pressure from state officials after a Boston medical student reportedly killed a masseuse he met on Craigslist, the classifieds site is cancelling its racy "Erotic Services" section with a new one reviewed by employees. More » -
craigslist
DABA Girls Find Exciting New Option for Romance
We don't think this Craigslist ad from a supposed Goldman Sachs banker is real. For one thing, whoever heard of an employed investment banker? Still, his kink is a real kick! More » -
recessionomics
Ridiculously Awesome Jobs Still Available
America might be in the midst of an economic death spiral or whatever, but there still ridiculously cushy jobs available for people marketers want to reach (young/not poor). Both involve drinking, for money. More » -
rants
Oh, Sure, Like Anyone's Going to Boycott Craigslist
Troubled by reports that accused murderer Philip Markoff found his alleged prey through Craigslist, a do-gooder has called for a boycott of the classifieds site. 61 out of a hoped-for 500,000 have signed up. More » -
craigslist killer
Craigslist Killer on a Very Stylish Suicide Watch
Accused murderer and savvy webhead Philip Markoff tried to hang himself in his cell with shoelaces, so authorities now have him wearing an insane-looking anti-suicide smock called a Ferguson, according to the Daily News. More » -
crime
'Craigslist Killer' Maybe Had Gambling Problem
Why would a WASPy medical student, engaged to be married, start robbing and killing hookers? The going theory is gambling debt. The suspect's media handle is now "The Craigslist Sex Gambling Death Killer." Officially. -
crime
Craig Newmark to Speak at Tribute to Craigslist Victim
What on earth will Craigslist founder Craig Newmark say at a memorial service for Katherine Olson, the 24-year-old Minneapolis woman shot by a killer who found her using a Craigslist ad? More » -
crime
Accused Craigslist Killer's Prosaic Facade
If the cliché about secret serial criminals is that they seemed so normal, and no one saw their attacks coming, then Philip Markoff could be the poster child for the stereotype.
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hipster grifter
Kari Ferrell: Celebulies and Craiglist Hookups
It turns out there is no news in New York City currently that does not relate to hipster grifter Kari Ferrell! Semi-celebrities and prospective hookups are sending us her ridiculous lies! We're programmed to care. More » -
casual encounters
Marriage-Defending Crusaders Are 2M4M
Let's see, how could the evil anti-gay group that calls itself NOM (NOM NOM) and had its hilarious commercial audition clips leaked to YouTube become even more comical? They found a way! More » -
law and order
Feel Free To Hire Hookers Off Craigslist Again
Law-abiding citizens, tremble in fear: the NYPD is no longer secretly patrolling the hooker ads on Craigslist. Are we safe without undercover cops trying to lure horny men into motel rooms and arrest them? More » -
Jobs in Hell
Vapid Fauxcialites Seek Huge Sucker for 'Internship'
Not only are there no real entry-level media jobs; even internship opportunities have come to this: "Do you watch The City, read Gawker and know the names of people like Julia Allison and Kristian Laliberté?" More » -
san francisco chronicle
Who Would Fund America's Largest Nonprofit Newspaper?
San Francisco Chronicle journalists are trying to talk investors into buying the foundering daily newspaper and restructuring it as a nonprofit, writes the SF Appeal. Who are the ink-stained wretches courting? More » -
sex trade
Why the Police Pretend to Hate Craigslist's Whoring
For vice squads, Craigslist personals, home to many a paid hookup, make prostitution busts as easy as buying a couch. So why is an Illinois lawman suing the website? More » -
superstars
John Fitzgerald Page Can Put You in the Movies!
Stop everything: John Fitzgerald Page—the Worst Person in the World—is doing stuff! Would you like to be in a movie with Bill Murray and Sissy Spacek? John Fitzgerald Page can make it happen: More » -
positions
Creative Director Seeks Whorish Assistant
You never know with Craigslist ads; the good offers are fake, and the outrageous ones are often real. It's not really unthinkable that an ad person would straightforwardly ask for a slutty personal assistant, right? More » -
jobs
Worst Media Internship Ever Welcomes New Depression
Attention, unemployed young media people: according to what we fear may be a real Craigslist job posting, you may be able to make up to $10 working for a publishing company! If you're not "bitchy." More » -
events
Your Fashion Week Craiglist Ticket Guide
Fashion Week this year will just be full of commoners and riff-raff, because people are scalping "tickets" for it all over Craigslist! The five priciest—and five cheapest—"tickets" below. Buy some for the hobos! More » -
defamer connections
Happy Endings Offered to Disney, Warners Execs
The Age of the Easily Expensed Job-Perk (Assistant: "You want me to submit a receipt that says, 'Lunch withhookerRatner?'" Agent: "Yeah, that's fine. Throw 'er in there with the rest...") are long over. More » -
craigslist
Inaugural Sex Trades: Five Types
With a million people in DC for the inauguration, Craigslist has, naturally, become a throbbing hub of sexxxy inaugural offer$. Even journalists are trying to elbow in on the action. More » -
inauguration
Obama Tickets Scalped on Craigslist
Members of Congress, who have granted themselves the exclusive right to dole out tickets to Barack Obama's inauguration, are outraged that free marketeers on Craigslist are infringing on their monopoly. [Politico] -
mysteries
Craigslist's Lonely Media Gay Revealed: NYT Perfume Critic
The holidays turn our thoughts to love and family. But the "m4m" section of Craigslist, usually a venue for anonymous hookups, is a strange place to begin one's soulmate quest. That didn't stop one reporter! -
craigslist
Is This The Greatest Craigslist Car Ad Ever Written? Yes.
Apropos of nothing save the desire to inject a little cheer into your lives, we bring you now a shimmering pearl found inside the most unexpected of internet mollusk varieties: the Craigslist auto ad. -
craig newmark
Craigslist founder uses ink and paper to find glasses
Craig Newmark, the hypernerdy classifieds-site operator who's destroying the newspaper industry, has found the limits of Craigslist. After repeated appeals online, he's taken to looking for a pair of lost glasses using old media. -
the help
Who Will Bail Out the Yolandas and Yvettes of the World?
Are you ready for MASS NANNY/MAID LAYOFFS? We're sure that Manhattan nanny Yvette is touched that her former employers are reaching out to the good people of Craigslist to help her find a new job.






























