Editor's Weblog features NowPublic

by mtippett | June 18, 2008 at 01:01 pm
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Headline: Citizen Journalism site NowPublic adds new features to "increase credibility and trust"

According to a press release from PRNewswire, the citizen journalism website NowPublic has added three news features, which include  "a member ranking system, a presence stream and a news dashboard."

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PEP

Following the links to learn more! I found this out-take:

"Ndege believes that citizen journalism is "supposed to be about the man
or woman on the street telling his or her story, not about the trained
professional," thus cites NowPublic
as the best business model around citizen journalism. Citizen
journalists provide the website with content, and in turn, NowPublic
sells it on wire services."

So what work have you sold to wire services? And do members get notified about this? Do we ever get payment if ya'll sell what we do?

Just asking!        ;}

I vote for transparency on this!

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Caoimhin1

Hmmm... Ndege calls Now Public a "news broker" in this article, what is that??

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julianw

Ndege is referring to our partnership with the Associated Press, to whom we are sometimes able to sell photographs taken by users. However, to simply label NowPublic a "news broker" is misleading: we are an interactive news sharing platform whose purpose goes beyond just selling photos to the AP.


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Caoimhin1

Thanks Julian!

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