Professional MSNBC buys citizen Newsvine
Posted by Jean Yves Chainon on October 9, 2007 at 11:42 AM
News site MSNBC has acquired Newsvine, the user-generated and user-ranked news site. Following the Huffington Post last week, this is another example of traditional media’s interest in Web 2.0 news sources.
Newsvine currently has one million unique monthly visitors. MSNBC, a joint venture between Microsoft and NBC, has 29 million unique monthly visitors.
Newsvine will continue to operate independently, and MSNBC will consider the possibility of adopting Newsvine’s user-generated content and offerings.
"We founded the company with the notion that big and little media can interact in a way that respects established journalism and empowers the individual at the same time,” said chief executive Mike Davidson, one of Newsvine’s six full-time employees.
Source: Brand Republic
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This is all very well except that the headline (currently) states "Montgomery buys Dutch De Telegraaf [...]", which he didn't.
this site SUCKS!!! I cant find anything on the executive.
The High Court of Rajasthan (India) steps in to expose Urmul Trust's (an NGO supported by OXFAM NOVIB, The Netherlands) misuse of foreign funds.
It is an open fact that there is very little control over the NGOs by the State and that most of the NGOs have become a law unto themselves and that mere lip service is being offered to agendas relating to real community development in whose name millions of rupees is being pumped in every year. There is every need for NGOs to become accountable towards the communities whom they claim to represent. The need of the hour is for the Govt. to introduce laws/system mechanisms that is utmost necessary for regulating these so called ‘civil societies’.
Keeping in mind the need for the much needed social reforms within the NGOs of Rajasthan, India, a D.B. Civil Writ has been filed in the High Court of Judicature for Rajasthan at Jodhpur pointing out the serious irregularities being committed by Urmul Rural Health Research and Development Trust, Bikaner (Urmul Trust) under the leadership of Sh. Arvind Ojha as the Secretary & CEO. Urmul Trust is being heavily funded and supported by Oxfam Novib, The Netherlands.
The Public Interest Litigation attempts to expose the inside story of how Mr. Ojha, holding the post of an ordinary cooperative inspector at Urmul Dairy, Bikaner and using his influence with powerful bureaucrats, gets himself deputed (and that too, the deputation lasting for over two decades!) to Urmul Trust, a private NGO, rises above all laws, takes national and international funding agencies for a ride and earns a name for himself as an "honest, transparent and selfless social worker"; "champion of the downtrodden" ...
In this connection, the honorable judges of the Hon. High Court, Hon. Justice Mr. P.B. Majumdar and Hon. Justice Mr. Dev Narayan Thanvi have found prima facie evidence against the gross misdeeds committed by Mr. Arvind Ojha and has passed orders on the 14th of September 2007 for issuing notices to the non-petitioners including the (1) Chief Secretary, Rajasthan, (2) Dist. Collector, Bikaner, (3) CMH&O, Bikaner, (4) Director General of Police, Jaipur, (5) Director, C.B.I., New Delhi, (6) Inspector General of Stamps, Ajmer, Rajasthan, (7) Principal, Medical College, Bikaner, (8) Managing Director, Urmul Dairy, Bikaner, (9) Sh. Ashok Shekhar, I.A.S., (10) Asst. Commissioner, Devasthan, Bikaner, (11) Commissioner, Devasthan Dept. Udaipur, (12) Superintendent of Police, Bikaner, (13) Registrar, Cooperative Society, Jaipur, (14) Ms. Karin Potma, Financial Officer, Oxfam Novib, The Netherlands, (15) Director, FCRA Division, Ministry of Home Affairs, New Delhi, (16) Managing Director, RCDF, Jaipur, (17) M/s Daiya & Tiwari Associates, Chartered Accountants for Urmul Trust, (18) Secretary, Colonization Dept., Jaipur, (19) Commissioner, Colonization Dept., Bikaner, (20) Registrar, Societies Registration, Cooperative Dept, Bikaner etc. for filing their replies against the charges made in the Civil Writ by the 30th of October 2007.
Oxfam Novib is aware of the fire incident in which all books relating to finances were destroyed. The successive audit reports conducted by Oxfam Novib in 2006-2007 are a testimony to the fact that Urmul Trust is engaged in corrupt finance practices.
It is indeed strange and difficult to comprehend that Oxfam Novib continues to fund a corrupt NGO which has brought disrepute to the NGOs in India. Millions of Euros is being misused by this organization each year. This NGO is amongst the most corrupt ones – largely due to the non transparent, dictatorship style of functioning of the CEO.
This news was prominently covered by all the leading dailies as well as eminent TV news channels on the 15th and the 16th of September 2007.
Social Workers Forum, Rajasthan
Advocate Mukesh Sharma & Anil Purohit, Writ Petitioners
P.S : Social Workers Forum, Rajasthan is a forum created for bringing in transparency and accountability within NGOs…A forum which believes that it is time for reforms within the corrupt NGOs in India.
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