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August 26, 2008
Idea Log: Newspapers Ramp Up Digital Media for Convention
Newspapers – especially the Denver newspapers and a few national outlets known for politics – are putting out some fabulous digital media-based coverage of this week’s Democratic National Convention. Here’s a short round-up! Please add to this list by telling us what your newspaper is doing in the comments section below!
Denver Post: The Denver Post is feeding a stream of Twitter-like updates from reporters covering the convention, and readers can sign up to get the messages on their mobile phones. Streams range from news updates (Obama Heading to Montana) to celeb sightings (Steven Spielberg just walked into Peet's Coffee on the 16th St Mall…). Also, see the Denver Post’s prominent convention cover on the Web site with links to video, breaking news updates and reader-participation opportunities.
Rocky Mountain News: The Rocky Mountain News has a Twitter feed box on the main page of the site! Also see the newspaper’s video blogs from local hangouts (including the humorous Sam-ulcast), a political trivia quiz, a Google Maps traffic updates section that focuses a lot on the convention area and a lot more.
The Washington Post: The newspaper’s Web site goes live again with Post Politics TV – this time from Denver. Last year, the newspaper lauched Post Politics TV with primary election coverage from the washingtonpost.com newsroom in Arlington, Va. This time, Washington Post and Newsweek stffers are using mobile devices and a cell phone app from Comet Technologies to live stream from the floor. Also new: The Post Politics TV page has an interactive chat module, allowing viewers to interact with reporters on the floor. (Learn about the newspaper’s initial efforts with live Web streaming here.)
In addition, washingtonpost.com has a video going behind the scenes of their online news operation at the convention center in Denver. It's not as glamorous there as you might think.
C-SPAN: The government channel breaks free from the walls of Congress – and its own site. C-SPAN’s DNC site has prominent links to its Qik streaming video, its YouTube page and blog entries from newspapers all over the country. C-SPAN is doing a healthy amount of multimedia coverage of the DNC, but its willingness to send site visitors elsewhere on the Web is also impressive.
More:
To fuel the round-the-clock coverage, the hometown papers have beefed up on their new-media tools. The Denver Post bought dozens of staffers BlackBerrys so they can update the Web site from the convention floor. The Rocky Mountain News has been training staffers how to take digital photos with cell phones and use the instant-messaging service Twitter for quick updates during the convention.
Bloggers Bloggers Stake Convention Claim in "Big Tent" (Poynter)
The Democratic National Convention Committee issued credentials to 124 bloggers this year -- a record number, but still just a fraction of the estimated 10,000 or so media camped out in four enormous tents in the parking lot of the Pepsi Center.
Gadgetry at the Democratic National Convention (Wired)
Bloggers and journalists are descending upon Denver, the site of the 2008 convention, like a cloud of locusts: And they're bringing their gear.
Convention Coverage a Story of Innovation Amid Cutbacks (Poynter)
As more than 10,000 news media representatives converge here for the Democratic National Convention, financial pressures have forced companies to scale back, team up and load up online. Blogging is not optional -- and may be done from a BlackBerry. Newspaper reporters are Twittering and shooting video. And some of the coverage is coming from the subjects of coverage -- delegates who blog and take photos.
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