Globe & Mail: NowPublic is, "the largest participatory journalism website in the world"

by mtippett | February 24, 2007 at 11:13 am
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A nice piece in today's Globe about NowPublic. Thanks Megan!

NowPublic.com has ballooned to the largest participatory journalism website in the world

VANCOUVER -- It was a crisp morning last August when Web marketer Megan Cole snapped her first picture of something she thought was newsworthy: a high-stakes takedown of a man on a bike by eight police officers, all in her quiet Kitsilano neighbourhood.

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If you're interested in the local citizen journalism scene or what the local bloggers are doing you might want to check out Vancouver's Northern Voice. Travis Smith, one of the organizers, is doing a talk on the subject. If anyone catches his chat I'd be interested in getting his take on our AP deal.

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ianivs

Travis is doing a great job with the session. Covering lots of topics: gathering information, law issues, publishing. 

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at 12:42 on February 24th, 2007

Was I ever proud of Megan and Matt - two of our great contributors who are showing us the way forward. Way to go!

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matte

"Bloggers were ranters"  Did I say that? - I said blogs were a place people could have a rant and give their opinion ;)

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matte

LOL very dry!

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arjun

 

I seem to remember that Travis did make mention of your AP deal. Congratulations. He did not talk a lot a about it. Sounds like this may be an interesting partnership for budding citizen journalists to take advantage of. I wonder how you will be financially sustainable though as a business, although I hope you are.

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Dom G

"To continue reading this article, you will need to purchase this article" - doh!

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