{"id":976,"date":"2007-02-09T21:11:58","date_gmt":"2007-02-10T02:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/02\/09\/nowpublic-and-ap-form-partnership\/"},"modified":"2007-02-09T21:11:58","modified_gmt":"2007-02-10T02:11:58","slug":"nowpublic-and-ap-form-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/02\/09\/nowpublic-and-ap-form-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"NowPublic and AP form partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some pretty big developments at Vancouver-based NowPublic, the &#8220;citizen journalism&#8221; or &#8220;participatory media&#8221; site, or whatever your preferred term is. One of them is that PaidContent says the company, whose site just underwent a redesign and relaunch, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paidcontent.org\/entry\/419-ap-teams-up-with-nowpublic-for-citizen-journalism-initiative\/\">signed a partnership<\/a> arrangement with the Associated Press newswire. The two are going to collaborate on news coverage, although there aren&#8217;t really a whole lot of details &#8212; either in the PaidContent item or in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ap.org\/pages\/about\/pressreleases\/pr_020907a.html\">news release<\/a> from the wire service.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"left\" id=\"image663\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/reporter.jpg?w=525\" alt=\"reporter.jpg\" \/>AP vice-president Jim Kennedy says AP &#8220;has a long tradition of pursuing citizen contributions in breaking news events worldwide&#8221; and &#8220;this relationship will make that connection even stronger and result in more news and images from people who are in the right place at the right time.&#8221; Interestingly enough, NowPublic&#8217;s &#8220;Actual News Guy&#8221; Mark Schneider says in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paidcontent.org\/entry\/419-ap-teams-up-with-nowpublic-for-citizen-journalism-initiative\/\">a comment on<\/a> the PaidContent story that the company is looking for a correspondent in Second Life.<\/p>\n<p>The other development came yesterday, and it is that MSNBC founder and former editor-in-chief Merrill Brown has joined NowPublic as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paidcontent.org\/entry\/industry-moves-merrill-brown-appointed-chairman-nowpublic\/\">chairman of the board<\/a>. The release says that he &#8220;was on the front lines at MSNBC when the Internet transitioned into the number one place to consume news and content,&#8221; and that he will &#8220;help us to continue building the next-generation wire service.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Big moves for NowPublic &#8212; it will be interesting to see how it develops.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some pretty big developments at Vancouver-based NowPublic, the &#8220;citizen journalism&#8221; or &#8220;participatory media&#8221; site, or whatever your preferred term is. One of them is that PaidContent says the company, whose site just underwent a redesign and relaunch, has signed a partnership arrangement with the Associated Press newswire. The two are going to collaborate on news &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/02\/09\/nowpublic-and-ap-form-partnership\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NowPublic and AP form partnership&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}