About Us

Go Long Island with Going Local Media

Melissa Farrell

CEO, Going Local Media

Editor-In-Chief, Going Local Long Island

Before starting Going Local, Melissa led a career as a Tour Director and loved finding local restaurants and hidden gems for her guests when on tours.  As the lead writer and Editor-In-Chief, she uses her Tour Guide skills to find the best places to eat, drink and shop local along with the best things to do on Long Island.  Melissa has a mission to support local business by “Going Local.” As a local business owner herself, she understands the struggles entrepreneurs face when owning a business and is always trying to find ways to shine a spotlight onto them to help spread awareness.

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Evangeline Knell

President, Going Local Media
Publisher, Going Local Long Island

Evangeline Knell is a 3-time Prime Time Creative Arts Emmy nominee and Shorty Awards winner for her production and design direction of interactive broadcast television elements for AMC’s “Talking Dead,” Bravo’s “Watch What Happens Live,” and an interactive television execution for Sprint during a live NASCAR race on the TNT network. After a 16-year career with CNN in New York, earning 3 Peabody Awards, her extensive creative and production work has been seen on dozens of broadcast and cable networks and station groups throughout the country. A proud board member of the Huntington Township Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington, she is Co-Founder of Going Local Media at goinglocal.li and Executive Producer at goinglocal.tv, built for Long Island local businesses and organizations, and has been the Owner and Creative Director of Identity Digital, a long-based video production and live streaming company since 2019, supporting and amplifying community businesses and organizations through the production of innovative, engaging, and authentic content that resonates with diverse, socially connected audiences.

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