News Source: The Globe & Mail
| 2 months ago
Vancouver — The Canadian Press Last updated on Wednesday, Sep. PM EDT V ancouver-based NowPublic, a citizen journalism website that boasts of contributing reporters in 160 countries around the world, has been bought by U.S. media firm Examiner.com.
News Source: Venture Beat
| 2 months ago
Examiner.com , the media company known best for its right-leaning owner, Philip Anschutz , announced that it has purchased citizen journalism-driven web site NowPublic for about $25 million. The New York Times lumps the deal in with others like it ...
News Source: Star Tribune
| 2 months ago
Two Web sites that rely on a mix of experts and amateur reporters to cover community news are joining forces in a deal announced Tuesday. Examiner.com, a rapidly growing site that relies on contractors to dissect a wide variety of topics, paid an...
News Source: Xtra News
| 2 months ago
Examiner.com, which operates a network of citizen journalism websites across the United States, announced on Tuesday that it had acquired NowPublic.com, a user-generated news site based in Canada. Examiner.com, which has a presence in over 100 US...
News Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 2 months ago
Examiner.com, a company that provides hyperlocal news and information supplied by semi-amateur contributors in more than 100 U.S. cities, is taking over NowPublic in a deal that is being valued at $25 million US. NowPublic bills itself as a "next-...