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Poster: Rick Ellis
Blog name: State Of Local
Company: AllYourTV.com
Backstory: Ellis is the managing editor of TV news site AllYourTV.com — and is helping set up a hyperlocal news site manned by laid-off reporters in the southern suburbs of the Twin cities. He previously was a managing editor at Internet Broadcasting, where he ran websites for local TV stations.
Blog Entry: In his post, Ellis argues that the “local” in local news isn’t limited to geography. “For most people online, their ‘local’ is more personal. Yes, they care about local news, but they also care about their friends and coworkers. They follow sports teams located in all sorts of places, they still keep in touch with the people they went to college with. That mental community they
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