Inside the Examiner.com Purchase of NowPublic: Hyper-Local Media
While pondering today’s news that the Denver-based Examiner.com, which aims to be the top local news network nationally and perhaps beyond, has purchased NowPublic, a tech-savvy, user-generated content pioneer based in Vancouver, I couldn’t help wondering what William Randolph Hearst would think about all of this. Forgive a long-time journalism professor for an indulgence, but up until the beginning of this century, the ghost of Citizen Kane hung over everything that happened at the old San Francisco Examiner, which for 120 years was the flagship newspaper of the Hearst family’s ever-expanding media empire. That all ended late in 1999, when the Hearst Corp. bought the San Francisco Chronicle, and began the process, out of anti-trust concerns, of divesting its ownership…
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