The Associated Press reports that the young startup NowPublic , which has become one of the most successful projects in non-professional citizen journalism, has received a very significant investment of $ 10.6 million. This can definitely be considered an important step towards universal recognition of the strength of the “crowd” as a source , battery and news distributor in the modern world.
The site NowPublic today has 120,000 active users, each of whom can add text, photos and videos of the news format there. Large information services are cooperating with the project, which advantageously complement their own with user materials.
In the first series of financing, money was invested into the company by its “fellow countrymen” from a number of Canadian venture funds.