Meet the bosses
About the owners
There are more than a dozen platforms out there that promise to let you buy and sell ad space on blogs and other Websites. But how many of them are owned and operated by someone who just might live in your neighborhood? Tell Peoria Online Media (http://tellpeoria.com) is operated for and by people who live your community. It’s our business philosophy to operate in a transparent manner, and we’ll openly discuss our rates, our policies and our associations. If you have a question or a concern, you can reach us in person. We aren’t taking your ad dollars out of the community. Instead, we are promoting local businesses and promoting a healthy environment for community-based journalism.
Billy Dennis
Billy Dennis is a former reporter and editor at small daily and weekly newspapers in Illinois and Missouri. Born and raised in Peoria, IL, he graduated from Woodruff High School in 1981. He attended Illinois Central College and later graduated from Eastern Illinois University in 1987. He began publishing Websites in the mid 1990s and discovered blogging in 2002, when he created the blog that would evolve into PeoriaPundit.com, where he comments on media, news and politics. He soon concluded that free-to-use blogging platforms like Blogger and WordPress.com effectively gives anyone with access to the Internet the same freedom of the press that once belonged exclusively to those who own printing presses. So he created The Blog Peoria Project, which promotes community-based citizen journalism in his hometown. Realizing that if citizen journalism is to grow to fill the void left by an increasingly shrinking mainstream media, then community-based citizen journalism would have to be monetized. He and Debbie Adlof then created Tell Peoria Online Media to connect bloggers and Website publishers with those who want to advertise on their sites. He lives in the Randolph-Roanoke neighborhood on Peoria’s West Bluff.
Debbie Adlof
“My experiences have ranged from being a cashier, a bookkeeper, an artistic administrative assistant, a virtual assistant, a reporter, and now as a newspaper owner. I served as a reporter for the Community Word for five years before becoming its owner/editor. For the past nine years, I’ve worn all the various hats necessary to keep growing/nurturing the paper. I embraced the Internet whole-heartedly and became one of the first papers in Peoria to have a web presence with all the news stories online and started a blog site for the newspaper. I’m convinced print media needs to embrace and incorporate the Internet with their publications, or they might not survive. It was my strong desire for such new ideas and uses for the newspaper that lead to becoming one of the co-owners of TellPeoria.com!” Debbie lives on North Foxpoint Drive in North Peoria.
Contact us with any questions: sales@tellpeoria.com or call us at (309) 863-5748 or (309) 692-0644
