Comments on: NowPublic, citizen journalism site, expands with $10.6M

By: GRDGF » Blog Archive » News Still Needs Pros

GRDGF » Blog Archive » News Still Needs Pros — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:31:18 +0000

[...] like NowPublic in the news today for raising new funding, Associated Content and NewAssignment.net are doing exactly [...]

By: GRDGF » Blog Archive » Canaan Invests in The People

GRDGF » Blog Archive » Canaan Invests in The People — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:26:19 +0000

[...] is the second funding announcement for a citizen journalism site this week following the announcement made by NowPublic on Monday. Clearly VCs see money to be made here, but can these companies be [...]

By: VentureBeat » MSNBC acquisition of Newsvine pulls news aggregators back into spotlight

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 01:36:22 +0000

[...] 29 million. Slower than desired growth and competition from newer startups like NowPublic (our coverage) likely contributed to Newsvine’s decision to sell. Tagged N/A VentureBeat [...]

By: VentureBeat » American Towns, your online “public square”

VentureBeat » American Towns, your online “public square” — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:37:20 +0000

[...] the investment in American Towns and another recent $10.6 million first round for citizen journalism site, NowPublic, shows, the belief that this market will generate [...]

By: VentureBeat » Associated Content’s bold media strategy — relying on Google

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 00:01:23 +0000

[...] engines like Google. Timing of the news, which follows on the heels of an announcement by news site NowPublic that it had raised $10.6 million, is purely coincidental, he said. Canaan Venture Partners, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, [...]

By: Leonard Brody

Leonard Brody — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 06:16:21 +0000

Actually, when we sell them to the AP, the contributor makes the lion’s share of the money. It’s not taking the content and then making money off of it without giving back to the owner…come on now.

By: chad

chad — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 02:43:59 +0000

So you post stories for free, then they sell them to AP? Tom Sawyer would be proud of this site’s business model.

By: NowPublic does $10.6-million financing » mathewingram.com/media

NowPublic does $10.6-million financing » mathewingram.com/media — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:28:35 +0000

[...] the news about the financing (but not the acquisition offers), and there is also some coverage at VentureBeat and at GigaOm, where Liz Gannes also talked to Leonard [...]

By: Exclusive: NowPublic turns down takeover bids » mathewingram.com/work

Exclusive: NowPublic turns down takeover bids » mathewingram.com/work — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:23:30 +0000

[...] the news about the financing, but not the acquisition offers, and there is also some coverage at VentureBeat and at GigaOm, where Liz Gannes also talked to Leonard [...]