Citizen Journalism Site Gets Director

by Barry Artiste | February 14, 2008 at 06:11 am
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Certainly a feather in Now Public's Hat with the hiring of World Editor Rachel Nixon to Now Public.  "Welcome Rachel" from us News Wranglers. 
Citizen journalism site gets directorVancouver SunPublished: Thursday, February 14, 2008

Vancouver-based citizen journalism website NowPublic.com named Rachel Nixon as its global news director Wednesday.

The year-old NowPublic.com bills itself as the world's largest participatory news network with correspondents from 3,600 cities in 140 countries.

Nixon spent the last nine years with BBCNews.com, most recently as its deputy world editor with a staff of 45."We're thrilled and honoured to have a journalist as accomplished as Rachel join the NowPublic team," Leonard Brody, co-founder and CEO of NowPublic, said in a news release. "As we chart the course for entirely new means of gathering and distributing news, I can't imagine a more qualified individual to lead our editorial."

Nixon said: "The NowPublic team has blazed trails from day one and clearly mainstream media is now embracing the media model that NowPublic originated."

The website features stories, photos and videos sent in by contributors.

It's owned by NowPublic Technologies Inc.

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Rob Walker

Whoo, your first official news story Rachel!

Welcome aboard the good ship nowpublic!

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Barry Artiste

Imagine that, leaving Rainy England for Rainy Vancouver, certainly a smooth transition, so Rachel should feel right at home.

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Jordan Yerman

I checked Front Page and thought, "Hey, is the database spitting member
pics onto the front page?!" Glad I'm wrong. Yeah, we're happy to have
Ms. Nixon on board.

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Barry Artiste

Of course she will have to get used to calling her Brolley an Umbrella

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Rachel Nixon

Thanks for the welcome, Barry. I'm pleased to be here - in spite of the rain!

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Barry Artiste

At least we do not have to shovel the rain, unlike the rest of snowbound America.

You will certainly Love "Vangroovy" as I like to call it, we do get sun, it is just that it likes to hide behind rain clouds.  

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PEP

Welcome, Rachel. Ahhhh, but....England (yes, I'm an Anglophile, love England). Hope you enjoy Canada, which is a great place with nice people, and NowPublic.

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Rachel Nixon

Thanks for the welcome, PEP!

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Jordan Yerman

That's a cool hat.

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Barry Artiste

Thanks for the additional photos Alfred

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