With Election Day finally upon us, MTV's Street Team '08 is gearing up for the day we've been looking forward to for almost a year. And it's going to be awesome.
We have reporters in every state and Washington, D.C., and we'll be filing reports throughout the day on think.mtv.com and chooseorlose.com (they redirect to each other). These will be video reports from polling stations, interviews with voters, analysis of the voting process...and we'll be using Twitter as a primary reporting tool for much of the day.
MTV built a Twittervision platform for Choose or Lose, and MTVNews.com, and we'll be tweeting throughout the day. It's a wonderful culmination of the social media tools we've been working with since January, and is a reflection of the timely reporting we did on Super Tuesday, the RNC and DNC, and the debates.
Give @streetteam08 a follow, be sure to visit Choose or Lose...and don't forget to VOTE!
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Monday, November 3, 2008
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
From potholes to wheatfields
So, it's begun. My year-long journey on the campaign trail for MTV has officially started. I spent four fantastic days in New York City getting the lowdown on what this Street Team '08 project entails: everything from legal mumbo-jumbo to listening to AP reporters Ron Fournier and Kevin Roach dish on covering politics.
We stayed at the very cool Time Hotel, right off Broadway on 49th Street. Our first evening in New York, we gathered at MTV studios for a booze-free happy hour, then shuffled into an auditorium, where Sway sang our praises and told us what MTV thought of this project. They're psyched, man. Nobody's ever given regular people the tools to cover an election like this before. MTV's done similar stuff with Choose or Lose, and Huffington Post has "Off the Bus," which is headed up by Jay Rosen of NYU, who spoke to us, as well.
A bleach-haired John Norris gave us interviewing tips and folks from the Knight Foundation (our awesome patrons) and Gannett discussed the importance of our project. Holy crap! These people are seriously excited about what can come out of this. I am too, but I guess I'd forgotten how excited you can get about huge projects like this. Thanks, PR.
Normally, I leave New York and say "eff that." Maybe it's because I lived in Chicago for so long and have a grudge against New York; maybe it's a Midwest thing. I don't know. But I think I like New York now. Believe it or not, it's a wee bit more exciting than this area. Who knew?
I think it's because I got to see more of the city than just the tourist spots. Last time I was there, in 2005, we did Times Square, Central Park, the Dakota, Ground Zero and Wall Street, and the Statue of Liberty. This time, I just went to Union Square and hung out with my gorgeous friend Maria and her gorgeous roommate, Gillian. My j-school friend, Josh, who had a winter internship at Time, Inc., came along and it was glorious. It beats the crowds at Times Square, that's for sure.
So, I'm back now, and filed my first story today. Check it out, and check out the Street Team often to see what's up in the world of politics!
We stayed at the very cool Time Hotel, right off Broadway on 49th Street. Our first evening in New York, we gathered at MTV studios for a booze-free happy hour, then shuffled into an auditorium, where Sway sang our praises and told us what MTV thought of this project. They're psyched, man. Nobody's ever given regular people the tools to cover an election like this before. MTV's done similar stuff with Choose or Lose, and Huffington Post has "Off the Bus," which is headed up by Jay Rosen of NYU, who spoke to us, as well.
A bleach-haired John Norris gave us interviewing tips and folks from the Knight Foundation (our awesome patrons) and Gannett discussed the importance of our project. Holy crap! These people are seriously excited about what can come out of this. I am too, but I guess I'd forgotten how excited you can get about huge projects like this. Thanks, PR.
Normally, I leave New York and say "eff that." Maybe it's because I lived in Chicago for so long and have a grudge against New York; maybe it's a Midwest thing. I don't know. But I think I like New York now. Believe it or not, it's a wee bit more exciting than this area. Who knew?
I think it's because I got to see more of the city than just the tourist spots. Last time I was there, in 2005, we did Times Square, Central Park, the Dakota, Ground Zero and Wall Street, and the Statue of Liberty. This time, I just went to Union Square and hung out with my gorgeous friend Maria and her gorgeous roommate, Gillian. My j-school friend, Josh, who had a winter internship at Time, Inc., came along and it was glorious. It beats the crowds at Times Square, that's for sure.
So, I'm back now, and filed my first story today. Check it out, and check out the Street Team often to see what's up in the world of politics!
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