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Carol Anne Meehan is back in the news, and back in the news business.

The popular and longtime television news anchor who was unceremoniously laid off by CTV News Ottawa last November is launching her own local news blog.

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For the time being called Carol Anne’s News Blog, the site will be dedicated to reporting regional stories she feels are being missed by rapidly changing, often shrinking, media outlets.

“In the past two months since my layoff, I’ve been out and about and have run into so many people with really neat stories that are just not being told,” she said Friday.

“And now is the perfect opportunity — I’m free and interested, and there’s something called social media that I can use; there’s this vehicle just waiting for me to do the writing.”

Encouraged by the more than 10,000 positive responses she says she’s received since announcing her blog on Facebook Thursday night, Meehan says she hopes to see her site go live within a week, and feature a couple of stories each week.