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Watch Out Brian Williams: YouTube’s New Amateur Reporter Channel

Posted in Press on June 6th, 2008 by Michael Tippett – Be the first to comment

Yesterday I met with Olivia Ma who is running Youtube’s new CJ operation.  She gets it.  This should be interesting and in my opinion good for participatory news and NowPublic members (stay tuned).

Want to see Brian Williams do his stuff, online? Head to MSNBC’s Web site. Want to see thousands of would-be Brians trying their own hand at video reporting/news reading? Head to YouTube, which has a gazillion of them. Some are even kind of good!

But how to find them all? YouTube’s helpful solution: Shove them all into a new reporter “channel”, just like the one the site offers for musicians, politicians, etc.

YouTube, by the way, isn’t the first to try aggregate the public’s impulse to play TV reporter; CNN’s ireport.com and Nowpublic are trying to do the same thing.

Source: alleyinsider.com via mtippett

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Leonard Brody heading East

Posted in Industry News on June 6th, 2008 by Michael Tippett – Be the first to comment

NowPublic’s own Len Brody is heading to Halifax.

Leonard Brody is Co-Founder and CEO of NowPublic. NowPublic is one of the pioneers in citizen-generated news and is quickly becoming one of the largest news agencies in the world, with more than 130,000 contributing reporters in140 countries and 4,500 cities. In the last year, The Guardian in London ranked NowPublic as one of the top five news sites in the world and Time Magazine named it as one of the top 50 websites of the year. At Onvia (where he was part of the initial executive) the company was voted Canada’s number one start-up in 2000 and subsequently closed a$240 million IPO (A company’s first sale of stock to the public) on NASDAQ. He is also an advisor to several companies including, the Associated Press, RedHerring and Sonic Foundry. Leonard is currently a Senior Advisor to the Canadian Minister of International Trade and a Director of Canada’s largest technology association, CATA. The Diana and Charles Tisdall Lecture in Communications aim to demonstrate the societal power and value of public relations/communications thinking.

Source: newswire.ca via mtippett

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