Image via CrunchBase The big news in the citizen journalism space is that Vancouver-based participatory news site NowPublic.com has been sold to the local news network, Examiner.com. The new owners, Philip Anschutz’s Clarity Media Group, are reported to have paid around $25 million. NowPublic was started in 2005 by Canadian entrepreneurs Leonard Brody, Michael Tippett and Michael Meyers, and has raised more than $10m in venture capital. Writing on NowPublic,

Vancouver-based Orato.com used to describe itself as the “only news site in the world dedicated to First Person, citizen-authored journalism”. The citizen journalism site is perhaps best known for assigning two former sex trade workers to cover the trial of Robert Pickton, convicted in December 2007 on six counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of six women whose remains were found on his farm. The concept behind Orato was

CBC has appointed the former BBC News online editor Rachel Nixon as its new director of Digital Media for CBC News. Rachel Nixon is an award-winning journalist, having spend nine years with the internationally acclaimed BBCNews.com in a number of increasingly senior positions. In 2007, Rachel was named BBC World Service Editor of the Year for cross-platform editorial leadership. Currently, Nixon is the global news director of Vancouver-based NowPublic.com, the

The Vancouver-based participatory news service, NowPublic.com, has been getting a lot of media attention in Canada this past week. It is mentioned in an article on the Canwest News Service on the protests over Tibet. Co-founder Len Brody set out his goals for the site: Our job is to own the space and time between when an event happens and when it gets uploaded to the web and be at