Co-Founder Michael E. Meyers

Co-founder Michael Tippett

Co-founder Leonard Brody

NowPublic is a user-generated social news website. The company is based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and was founded by Michael Tippett, Leonard Brody and Michael E. Meyers in 2005. On Sept. 2, 2009 the company was acquired by Clarity Digital Group, LLC, wholly owned by The Anschutz Company, a Denver-based investment company. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.

In addition to content contributed by users, NowPublic had a content-sharing agreement with the Associated Press.^{[citation needed]}

Time magazine named NowPublic.com one of the Top 50 websites of 2007.^[1] In 2009, the site was nominated for an Emmy in Advanced Technology.

Financing[link]

On July 30, 2007, a Canadian national daily, The Globe and Mail, announced that NowPublic Technologies had closed a US$10.6 million round of financing from North American venture capital groups, following several takeover offers. These investors include New York's Rho Ventures and its Montreal affiliate and early investing Canadian firms Brightspark and GrowthWorks.^[2]

See also[link]

• Citizen journalism
• Crowdsourcing

Notes[link]

External links[link]

• NowPublic.com

Leonard Brody has been called a “controversial torchbearer for this new world order.”^[1] He is a highly respected entrepreneur ^[2], venture capitalist, best-selling author ^[3] and a 2 time Emmy nominated ^[4] [1] media visionary. He has helped in raising millions of dollars for startup companies, been through one of the largest internet IPOs ^[5] in history and has been involved in the building, financing and/or sale of five companies to date. Leonard was recently awarded Canada's Top 40 Under 40.

At Onvia (where he was part of the initial executive), the company was voted Canada’s number one startup ^[6] in 2000 and subsequently closed a $240 Million IPO on NASDAQ ^[7].

In 2004, Brody co-founded, and was CEO of, NowPublic.com ^[8] which is a pioneer in the field of citizen journalism ^[9]. The company was named by Time Magazine as one of the top 50 websites in the world ^[10], was inducted into the Newseum in Washington and was recently acquired by the Anschutz Corporation ^[11] . Currently he sits as the President of the Clarity Digital Group ^[12] responsible for overseeing one of the largest online news conglomerates in the world including Examiner.com and NowPublic, which between them, share over 30 million unique visitors a month and over 300,000 contributors.

Brody also acts as an advisor to venture capital funds in the US, Europe and Asia. Throughout his career, he has advised several companies including, the Associated Press, Alliance Atlantis, Derby County Football Club, Coventry City Football Club ^[13] and MTV Enterprises. In addition, he was the Senior Technology Advisor to the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs & International Trade. Currently, he is one of the co-founders of GrowLab, a Vancouver & San Francisco based accelerator backed by such venture capital funds as Mohr Davidow, Innovia and Rho.

A highly sought-after public speaker ^[14], Brody has lectured at institutions such as Stanford, the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, the G8 and the United Nations ^[15]. His insight has been requested by companies such as Forbes, Warner Music Group, as well as the governments of countries such as India, Israel, Ireland and South Africa. He has spoken at conferences throughout the world and his work has been featured in such publications as Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, the BBC and the New York Times. He is co-author of the best selling books, “Innovation Nation: Canadian Leadership from Jurassic Park to Java” and “Everything I Needed to Know About Business...I Learned from a Canadian” both published by John Wiley & Sons ^{[16] [17]}.

Brody holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts from Queen's University, a law degree from Osgoode Hall and is a graduate of the Private Equity Course at the Harvard Business School.

Bibliography[link]

• Innovation Nation: Canadian Leadership from Jurassic Park to Java. ISBN 0-470-83202-9 (with Ken Grant, Matt Holland (writer) - Toronto: Wiley, 2002.
• Everything I Needed to Know About Business...I learned from a Canadian. Toronto: Wiley, 2005. ISBN 0-470-83637-7 (with David Raffa)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Now Public