NowPublic

NowPublic was a user-generated social news website. The company was based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and was founded by Michael Tippett, Leonard Brody and Michael E. Meyers in 2005. On Sept. 2, 2009 the company was acquired by Clarity Digital Group, LLC, wholly owned by The Anschutz Company, a Denver-based investment company.

NowPublic
Type of site
Citizen journalism
OwnerNowPublic Technologies Inc.
Created byMichael Tippett, Leonard Brody and Michael E. Meyers
URLhttp://www.nowpublic.com/
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional
Launched2005
Current statusInactive (as of 2013)

Effective December 27, 2013 the site was closed and the domain redirected to www.examiner.com.

In addition to content contributed by users, NowPublic had a content-sharing agreement with the Associated Press.[1]

Time magazine named NowPublic.com one of the Top 50 websites of 2007.[2] In 2009, the site was nominated for an Emmy in Advanced Technology.

Financing

On July 30, 2007, a Canadian national daily, The Globe and Mail, announced that NowPublic Technologies had closed a US$10.6 million round of financing from North American venture capital groups, following several takeover offers. These investors include New York's Rho Ventures and its Montreal affiliate and early investing Canadian firms Brightspark and Growthworks.[3]

gollark: Yeeees, it seems like the particularly totalitarian stuff just gets shoved through without COVID-19 being hugely related.
gollark: But that seems inaccurate because politicians also probably look good/bad if they do well/badly against COVID-19 regardless.
gollark: If you were somewhat more cynical than me I guess you could think something like: updated vaccines aren't part of mainstream political discourse yet, they are unlikely to be unless there is deployment/development of them, and so politicians (who are optimizing for looking good according to said political discourse) don't care and don't do anything about the situation.
gollark: I said three things. Maybe I should retroactively use semicolons.
gollark: So I guess either the entire system is missing obvious low-hanging fruit, the possible benefits of updated vaccines are known but not enough to make people actually budge, or the decision-making people think that updated vaccines wouldn't be significantly better.

See also

Notes
  1. "AP Warms Up to Blogs, Citizen Media at NowPublic". Retrieved 1 September 2018.
  2. "50 Best Websites 2007". Time. 2007-07-08. Retrieved 2010-05-20.
  3. Ingram, Mathew (2007-07-31). "NowPublic nixes takeover bids, lands financing". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2007-07-31.


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