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Local media veteran Liz Smith launchec www.thewatchtree.com as a hyperlocal community source that mergeprofessional journalism, community contributiona and civic-minded interchange. Smith said she developed the site through ArizonaState University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication’s Knightf Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship. “Ax newspapers downsize, or in Scottsdale’sa case, depart the market altogether, a real gap in coverag of our communityemerges — we know less and less aboug what’s going on,” Smith “I wanted to provide a meaningful placde not only for the community to stay but also for it to congregate and improve communicatiom from a civic standpoint.
” The site is seeking story tips and communitgy events for publication. Smith most recently was executive editorof Scottsdale-basedf regional magazine Arizona Foothills.
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