| Website | nowpublic.com |
| Category | Consumer Web |
| Employees | |
| Founded | 1/05 |
| Truemors, 7/08 |
| Total | $12M |
| Seed Rose Tech Ventures | |
| Angel, 5/06 Brightspark Ventures | $1.4M |
| Series A, 7/07 Brightspark Ventures Rho Capital Ventures GrowthWorks | $10.6M |
NowPublic is a news network unique for its type of reporter: you, 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 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 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. 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.
| Website | nowpublic.com |
| Stage | Live |
| Launch Date | October 7, 2004 |
| Tags | news |
