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Crowdsourcing advice for the next president
Another exciting Election Day has passed for the nation and we can once again begin to count the days until the next Super Bowl of the news industry begins.
Election coverage has evolved greatly in past years from times when results had to be called in for print to present day when we can have reporters live tweeting their coverage from the parties held by major political camps.
This year also brought change in our coverage with respect to how Digital First Media's Thunderdome project allowed us to bring a wide variety of national, presidential election coverage to our audience while being able to be more focused on our local races at each of our respective papers.
While you can see all of the great coverage the Thunderdome team has been working on lately on our politics page, a project that I thought worked particularly well on Election Day was one where they dispatched our DFM reporters across the country to ask voters one simple question - "What advice do you have for the next president?"
Reporters then took a photo of the voter and e-mailed their responses to the central Thunderdome team, which organized the posts and distributed them nation-wide.
It was really such a simple thing, but it provided a great nation-wide look at voter opinions as they exercised their constitutional rights at the polls.
Here's some of the best advice provided by voters as part of the project, as selected by Thunderdome staffers. I'll also post some of our local submissions from Troy below.
Local submissions:
"Just make the world a better place, that's the best you can do. Good luck, being President is a handful." Christina Walker (Troy,NY)
"Just make the world a better place, that's the best you can do. Good luck, being President is a handful." Christina Walker (Troy,NY)
"It's time to build up America and forget foreign trade. We are already deep in debt to China and they sell more here than we will ever sell there." John Petersen (Troy, NY)
"We need more money. People aren't making enough to keep up with the economy. We're working 2-3 jobs just to make ends meet."Eddie Zepf (Troy, NY)
Election coverage has evolved greatly in past years from times when results had to be called in for print to present day when we can have reporters live tweeting their coverage from the parties held by major political camps.
This year also brought change in our coverage with respect to how Digital First Media's Thunderdome project allowed us to bring a wide variety of national, presidential election coverage to our audience while being able to be more focused on our local races at each of our respective papers.
While you can see all of the great coverage the Thunderdome team has been working on lately on our politics page, a project that I thought worked particularly well on Election Day was one where they dispatched our DFM reporters across the country to ask voters one simple question - "What advice do you have for the next president?"
Reporters then took a photo of the voter and e-mailed their responses to the central Thunderdome team, which organized the posts and distributed them nation-wide.
It was really such a simple thing, but it provided a great nation-wide look at voter opinions as they exercised their constitutional rights at the polls.
Here's some of the best advice provided by voters as part of the project, as selected by Thunderdome staffers. I'll also post some of our local submissions from Troy below.
Local submissions:
posted by Tom Caprood at
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