David Kaplan
Apr 23, 2010 2:13 PM
Citizen-J site NowPublic has laid off several members of its dozen-person staff, paidContent has been told, confirming portions of an earlier post by Reportr.net. In an e-mail message to paidContent, NowPublic’s founder Leonard Brody said that, contrary to the earlier report that the site was headed for its demise, NowPublic…
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David Kaplan
Sep 1, 2009 4:00 PM
You’re reading it here first: After several months of trying to get the deal done, Citizen-J site NowPublic is about to be sold to a non-traditional buyer: local news network Examiner.com, which is controlled by Philip Anschutz’s Clarity Media Group, we have learned. The price is around $25 million range,…
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Rafat Ali
Nov 18, 2007 1:48 PM
At Monaco Media Forum earlier this month, I did a short video interview with Len Brody, the co-founder and CEO of NowPublic, one of the larger public journalism efforts out there. We quoted Len a few months ago from another story, where he caused some controversy saying that hyperlocal was…
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