Election Entries

Patchwork Nation

http://www.csmonitor.com/patchworknation/

Christian Science Monitor, Washington

This clever project bridges journalism, demographic data and blogging while tracking the travels, strategies and messages of the presidential candidates. It includes a fascinating and fresh new way to define various communities and provides entry points for citizen participation.

Purple States

http://purplestates.tv/view/268

Purple States, LLC, New Haven, Conn.

Reality TV with a meaningful mission: Purple States produces quality video of real people covering the presidential campaign. Their first season was broadcast on nytimes.com. A national online newspaper will feature their election documentaries.

Who’s Running for What? by Gotham Gazette

http://www.gothamgazette.com/city/campaigns/

Citizens Union Foundation, New York

A deep, rich and flexible online database provides citizens and others the ability to track currently elected politicians, announced and rumored candidates seeking public office in New York City.

Iowa Caucuses

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=caucus

The Des Moines Register, Des Moines, Iowa

Faced with the daunting task of informing Iowa caucus go-ers about the crowded field of 18 presidential candidates, The Des Moines Register produced innovative multimedia tools to explain how and where to participate in the caucuses, where candidates stand of a range of issues, based on their statements in debates and interviews.

DesMoinesRegister.com/caucusvideos

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=YOUTUBE

The Des Moines Register, Des Moines, Iowa

The DesMoines Register partnered with YouTube to invite and Webcast citizen videos leading up to the Iowa Caucuses. Thirty people were given cameras and got to keep them if they uploaded five segments. These videos were politically diverse, some humorous, some serious, but pretty popular. It was a successful collaboration.

OffTheBus

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/off-the-bus/

OffTheBus, New York

OffTheBus is a pioneering experiment in citizen-powered crowdsourcing of presidential election coverage, led by expert investigative journalists, savvy former Web political campaigners and one of the nation’s most popular and trusted blogs/news vetters. OffTheBus got scoops, broadened and deepened reporting and modeled a new spirit of journalistic collaboration with traditional news institutions, emerging online platforms, and non-profit watchdog groups.

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