Fred Wilson

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Fred Wilson.

When we caught up with Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey during his visit to the city last month, he told us he had been meeting with venture capitalists and others in the local tech scene to get their input on launching a startup in New York.

As we reported at the time, Mr. Dorsey is strongly considering moving his new company out here. (Judging by his Tweets over the past few days, it also looks like his personal move back to New York is complete.)

He said he was gauging whether New York was conducive to fostering startups and that he was also concerned about the challenge of scaling a new company here.

One of the people from whom he sought advice about these issues was Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures, who recalls his chat with Mr. Dorsey in a blog post today:

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In recent weeks, we've been following some "hyperlocal" New York City media and journalism developments.

On Sunday, The Huffington Post launched a New York edition, which is partnering with community newspapers like the Bronx News Network and The Riverdale Press and offering up its citizen journalism unit to the online politics and policy publication The Gotham Gazette. (Incidentally, as we reported last week, The Gazette just won a $250,000 grant to build a City Council watchdog wiki that will combine citizen journalism with reporting and fact-checking by the Gazette's editorial staff.)

As my colleague Gillian Reagan recently noted, The New York Times' new Web site The Local, which covers Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, has launched a virtual assignment desk that encourages readers to "Be The Journalist"—the site lists meetings that need covering, and readers volunteer to attend, take notes and file a report to be edited by the blog's staff.

And back in May, we profiled a not-for-profit organization that's campaigning to acquire the ".nyc" top level domain when it becomes available in 2010 in order to set up a city-wide network of neighborhood Web sites.

So we read with interest Fred Wilson's post about local media today on A VC. He writes: