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NowPublic

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NowPublic is a crowdsourcing news network empowering the ordinary citizen.

In 2009 the site was nominated for an Emmy. 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 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 170,000 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.

Milestones

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• Acquired by Examiner. (9/1/09)
  Posted 9/2/09 at 7:25am
• Acquired Truemors. (7/10/08)
  Posted 7/10/08 at 5:56am
• Received $10.6M in Series A funding. (7/1/07)
  Posted 7/30/07 at 8:38pm
• Received $1.4M in Angel funding. (5/1/06)
  Posted 7/27/07 at 1:39am
• Received in Seed funding.
  Posted 10/28/08 at 9:43pm
• Leonard Brody, Board added.
  Posted 7/27/07 at 1:24am
• Michael Tippett, Board added.
  Posted 7/27/07 at 1:27am
• Michael Meyers, Board added.
  Posted 7/27/07 at 1:28am
• Guy Kawasaki, Board of Advisors added.
  Posted 7/10/08 at 5:55am

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1. [Print] [Email] Examiner.com joins forces with NowPublic to cover local news in new ways (sfexaminer.com) [edit]
2. Guy Kawasaki’s Truemors Gets Acquired By NowPublic (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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