PROVING that citizen journalism is coming of age, NowPublic has received a major boost — namely $10.6 million in financing.
Here’s an excerpt from the Agence France-Presse article.
The financing is led by Rho Ventures in the United States and Canada.
Uses for the money will include ways to reward people that upload stories or images, and developing a system to “geo-locate” contributors so they can be found if they are in range of developments deemed newsworthy.
“We are moving to geo-locating people so we can do some cool stuff,” Brody said.
“For example, if there is a bomb in a subway station in London or a virus breaks out in Google’s cafeteria and media can’t get their fast enough we can identify people on the scene already and get their content,” Brody said.
Hmm, this makes me wonder: is there a citizen journalism site in the Philippines that you think deserves the same kind of investment? Say, if we had money to spare, which Filipino citizen journalism site would you want INQUIRER.net to invest money in or purchase outright? 
I’m just curious, but hey, you never know
August 2nd, 2007 at 11:39 pm
I believe TV networks experimented on this. I remember TV Patrol having a citizen’s report as with CNNs I-news.
There are untapped talent in the Filipino blogosphere worth investing, I believe. If there are citizen journalism site in the Philippines? I’m not quite sure but there might be a few but are not sustained but vox populi is a good example of citizen journalism in progress.
August 1st, 2007 at 5:24 pm
citizen journalism is popular now in korea. here in pinas, not yet. but bloggers are now everywhere…almost
August 1st, 2007 at 12:41 pm
I’ve none yet in mind but I’m hopeful some sites will pop up one day. That’s what I want for my site - sort of like Inquirer’s The Good News section - but on a ground level.. Small things, local, school-related and community-driven - all positive and good.
We all need good news from the grass roots, specially.
July 31st, 2007 at 9:17 pm
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