Posts Tagged ‘NowPublic.com’

Digital - Tuesday, September 1, 2009 15:32 - 6 Comments

NowPublic.com sold to Examiner.com for a reported $25m

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The big news in the citizen journalism space is that Vancouver-based participatory news site NowPublic.com has been sold to the local news network, Examiner.com.

The new owners, Philip Anschutzâ€™s Clarity Media Group, are reported to have paid around $25 million.

NowPublic was started in 2005 by Canadian entrepreneurs Leonard Brody, Michael Tippett and Michael Meyers, and has raised more than $10m in venture capital.

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