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Inside Patch During Superstorm Sandy

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In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, a big news event for hyperlocal publishers, we asked Patch's chief content officer Rachel Feddersen to give us the scoop on how the AOL unit managed its own business during the storm: "When my colleagues and I weren’t able to commute to the city during the storm and in the days following, we just joined our field work force."

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