So how does one create one of the world’s leading media companies?
Let’s ask one!
Michael Tippett founded NowPublic, one of the largest media organizations in the world. He’s accomplished a great deal, but as international expert on emerging news models, he may have a very interesting take on what print media can do to save themselves.
I asked him about that and much more. Don’t miss this archive of The A-List:
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A two-time Emmy nominee and successful entrepreneur for almost two decades, Tippett is recognized an as international expert on emerging news models. In 2005, Tippett co-founded NowPublic. The company has been named one of the top five most useful new sites on the web by The Guardian and Time magazine named it one of the Top 50 Websites for 2007.
In 1995, Tippett founded The WebPool Syndicate, one of Canada’s first Internet companies. After the success of the WebPool venture, Tippett travelled to the United States and worked for some of the largest web companies in North America, including TheGlobe.com and Register.com.
Outside of his role at NowPublic, Tippett is a member of the University of British Columbia’s School of Journalism Advisory Board, Capilano University, Bachelor of Professional Communication Advisory Committee and is also a board member of CABINET, a Vancouver-based arts organization.
In 2004 he collaborated with Kate Armstrong to produce Grafik Dynamo, a net art piece that loads live images from blogs and news sources on the web into a live action comic strip. Grafik Dynamo was a commission of Turbulence, made possible with funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The piece is now included in the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art – curated by Timothy Murray – in the Division of Rare and Special Collections at Cornell University.
Tippett graduated fromQueen’s University with a degree in Philosophy.
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