Welcome to the last Zaleski Minute of 2018. (Enjoy responsibly, folks.) As always, if it takes you longer than 60 seconds, complain to management.

What I Was Writing:

1. For Medium: Craigslist made Craig Newmark a rich man — and a pariah among journalists for siphoning off some $5 billion of newspapers’ classifieds advertising revenue. But over the last decade, the man viewed as reporting’s grim reaper has donated more than $70 million to the news business.

So Long, 2018:

1. I wrote 44 articles this year, for publications including Popular Science, Bloomberg Businessweek, Fortune, The Washington Post Magazine, and elsewhere. On Twitter, I’ve compiled some of my favorite pieces from the last 12 months.

Thanks for reading. Here’s to wishing us all a healthy and prosperous 2019. See you next month.