---
url: 'https://dri.es/examiner-com-acquires-nowpublic'
title: 'Examiner.com acquires NowPublic'
author:
  name: 'Dries Buytaert'
  url: 'https://dri.es/about'
date: '2009-09-03T04:34:08-04:00'
license: 'https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/'
type: blog
tags:
  - Drupal
  - NowPublic
published: true
id: 971
---

# Examiner.com acquires NowPublic

As [reported in the New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/02/business/media/02public.html?_r=2), [NowPublic](http://nowpublic.com), a citizen journalism website built on [Drupal](https://www.drupal.org), was acquired by [Examiner.com](http://examiner.com). Soon, one of the top-100 websites in the world will be running Drupal!*Congratulations to the NowPublic team!*

*(Disclosure: I am an advisor to NowPublic.)*
