Now Public
Citizen media site
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MediaPost Publications - Citizen Journalism: NowPublic Acquires Truemors - 07/11/2008
NowPublic is trying to build a business around citizen journalism. It's raised $10M and is developing versions of its crowdsourcing platform for corporate use
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Time Inc. Tries Hand at Reader-Generated Issue
Another publisher - this time a unit of venerable Time, Inc. - tries its hand at a print publication composed entirely of user-generated content. 8020 Publishing and the Hartford Courant are doing the same thing. Editors say the quality of ideas contributed by readers is remarkably good, although the copy needs a lot of work. They all plan to keep the conversation going.
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Everywhere, JPG - magazines for the future
8020 Publishing has a strong ownership pedigree (Halsey Minor and ex-Conde Nast execs) and a fascinating model. Each bi-monthly issue of its two magazines is composed entirely of content submitted by readers. It takes a staff of only 19 people to produce the two titles and they'll be profitable by next year.
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The UpTake
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PressThink: Help make my Blowback post to Michael Skube a little more sound; LATimes.com to run with it
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UB Roads Scholars
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