Thursday, March 29, 2007

Citizen Journalists to cover US elections


The Huffington Post is to take citizen Journalism to new heights by taking on a large group of citizen volunteers to cover the US presidential candidates.

Arianna Huffington says

"Each of these volunteer reporter/bloggers will contribute to a candidate-specific group blog -- offering written updates, campaign tidbits, on-the-scene observations, photos, or original video.
We'll have a Clinton blog, an Obama blog, an Edwards blog, a McCain blog, a Giuliani blog, a Romney blog, a Biden blog, a Richardson blog, a Dodd blog, a Kucinich blog, a Brownback blog, a Huckabee blog. Each offering a wide variety of voices and perspectives on the campaign they are following. These group blogs will also be a compendium of useful information about each candidate, including their latest speeches, upcoming appearances, new videos and ads, recent news articles and more. "

According to Editors weblog around 40-50 are expected to cover over 100 candidates.

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