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NowPublic is a news network unique for its type of reporter: you, the ordinary citizen. As a participatory news network, NowPublic lets citizens from all over the world write and contribute to news stories by sending in text, photos and/or videos. The site certainly employs the notion of “crowdsourcing,” as it is essentially a Wikipedia-like news service. Founded just over two years ago in a garage, NowPublic has since grown to include over 90,000 contributors in 140 countries worldwide. Major news corporations including CNN, BBC, MSNBC, and Gannet have all begun to include citizen-collected news content, and most recently the Associated Press partnered with NowPublic.com to incorporate their citizen content in stories and breaking news events. The company’s long-term goals aren’t necessarily to become a social news destination, but rather become a news content supplier to other media sites and/or companies. Other news companies could ultimately use NowPublic’s expansive reporting base to quickly cover breaking news and in other cases provide supplemental news coverage.

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1. Guy Kawasaki’s Truemors Gets Acquired By NowPublic (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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