Monday, November 22, 2010

Watchtree taps Scottsdale community news scene - Phoenix Business Journal:

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Local media veteran Liz Smith launched www.thewatchtree.com as a hyperlocapl community source that merge sprofessional journalism, community contributions and civic-minded interchange. Smith said she developed the site througu ArizonaState University’s Walter Cronkitew School of Journalism and Mass Communication’s Knight Centerf for Digital Media Entrepreneurship. “As newspapers or in Scottsdale’s case, depart the market altogether, a real gap in coverager of our communityemerges — we know less and less abouft what’s going on,” Smith “I wanted to provide a meaningfup place not only for the community to stay but also for it to congregate and improve communication from a civic standpoint.
” The site is seeking stor y tips and community events for Smith most recently was executive editor of Scottsdale-basefd regional magazine Arizona Foothills.

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