Washington Post Reporters to Join Politics Web Site
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The Washington Post lost two of its top political reporters to a fledgling multiplatform news organization with deep pockets.
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The Associated Press announced two agreements Tuesday &#151; one that will tie its news stories to the rapidly growing world of blogs and another that will help guide readers to newspaper Web sites.
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Editor and Publisher - NEW YORK While most newspapers are utilizing their Web sites to supplement coverage of the presidential race, the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times have taken the frenzy over electoral votes and undecided states to the next level with some unusual interactive options.
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CQPolitics.com reported Tuesday about a new feature on the Federal Election CommissionÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂs Web site that enables users to determine the geographic sources ÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂ by state and zip code ÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂ of the funds raised by each contender in the 2008 presidential race.
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WASHINGTON _ A group of Christian Democrats seeking to compete against Republicans for the vote of religious Americans have started a new Web site meant to serve as a forum for like thinkers and a political tool to raise money and volunteers for Democratic candidates who share their values.
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Politicians look for help online with the popular networking site facebook.com
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Oct. 27, 2004 - Political junkies of all stripes have gotten much of their news and political commentary during this year&#39;s campaign from online sources, and a new survey finds the Internet is contributing to a wider awareness of political views.
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Washington Post staff writer Dan Keating discusses electronic voting with washingtonpost.com tech policy editor Robert MacMillan. He'll also take your questions.
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(InfoWorld) - If Phillip Lamb's experience is any indication, the ability to leverage online social networking tools to organize campaigns may help make or break candidates in the 2008 U.S. presidential race. Lamb, a New York software architect with new media and Internet strategy company EchoDitto, was just another volunteer looking for a few good open-source software developers to help him build tools for Illinois Senator Barack Obama's campaign Web site. Using the site's social networking page, My.BarackObama.com, he posted his request for a "Hack for Barack" event to have developers meet and discuss how they could build mashups, APIs (application programming interfaces), and other tools to help with the Democratic senator's grassroots movement. "Six hours later, 30 people had signed up, and some of them just wanted to volunteer to help with the campaign, so I changed the nature of the event," Lamb said. Within 48 hours, so many people were signing up for the event that it crashed the Web site, and Lamb had to cap the event at 200 official attendees on the site. Five days after posting his request, about 250 people met at the GalleryBar in Manhattan's Lower East Side neighborhood for the meeting Lamb and other volunteers had arranged on My.BarackObama.com. Lamb walked away with about 150 names of people who not only may be able to help with Web site development, but who are interested in helping Obama in his presidential campaign, he said. Lamb also volunteered to develop the New YorkÂ siteÂ that will be the online hub of local efforts for Obama. EchoDitto's Lamb has been building Web-based community sites for about a year and a half, and he served as an assistant deputy field director for strategic targeting on Wesley Clark's 2004 campaign. These made him a good fit for EchoDitto when he joined four months ago, as former EchoDitto CEO Nicco Mele was the Web master for Howard Dean's online presence during his 2004 presidential campaign. Before Dean's campaign fizzled out after his now-famous scream when he came in third in the Iowa caucuses, the success of his campaign was largely attributed to his ability to drum up support online. Such support will be more pivotal in 2008, as social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace.com are much more popular now than in 2004, when they were in their nascent stages, Lamb said. "The technology has grown so much and a lot of people now know about it and they're comfortable using it," he said. Jeff Merritt, president of Grassroots Initiative, a nonprofit organization that helps first-time candidates in New York with their campaigns, agreed that social networking sites have changed the game for candidates in political races of all sizes and importance. "It used to be you stuck with direct mail, phone banking, and door-to-door canvassing," he said. "Now it's clear you get more bang for your buck if you take advantage of pre-established networks, and tap into online networks that are usually free." Merritt added that his organization consults clients on how to drum up support through MySpace and Facebook in addition to traditional means of campaigning. New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and former senator and 2004 vice presidential candidate John Edwards also have tapped into online social networking in their quests to become the Democratic candidate in 2008, as have Republicans Arizona Senator John McCain, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and Kansas Senator Sam Brownback. All of their sites have links to join up with other supporters, as well as links for planning events and making donations. Some of the sites have blogs, and McCain's offers videos. While these efforts certainly should help candidates "generate buzz," Grassroots Initiative's Merritt warned that a popular online presence alone certainly does not guarantee a candidate's success, a lesson Dean supporters learned the hard way. "I think the concern is that Dean did lots of social networking activity and young people were turning out, but that didn't translate into his electability," he said. To avoid this gaffe in 2008, candidates should ensure they stress to young voters that they must cast their votes at the polls in the same numbers in which they appear at campaign social gatherings and on social-networking sites, Merritt said.
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USA Today is plunging into a hot new Internet technology, offering users the ability to install "widgets" on their blogs and personal Web pages that contain news updates and other information from the newspaper.
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The Wall Street Journal, which is  being bought by Rupert Murdoch&#39;s News Corp, named a new  Washington, D.C., bureau chief and executive editor as it beefs  up its political coverage and analysis.
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DailyKos, an influential political Web site that serves as a virtual bulletin board for liberals, qualifies as a media entity exempt from federal campaign finance regulations
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Editor and Publisher - NEW YORK You mean you haven't seen "The Caucus," "Naked Politics," or "Clout Street?" No, these aren't new shows on television's prime-time schedule, or a string of rock bands hitting the underground circuit. They happen to be the latest online political reporting tools for some of America's most prestigious daily newspapers. As this midterm election in November shapes up to be one of the most crucial ever, newspapers are hitting the Web in ways they never have in the past, with new political blogs leading the way.
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The Conservative Party is hoping to harness the power of the Internet to attract younger, disaffected voters into mainstream politics with the launch of a new blogsite.
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Politicalbase.com is building a base of devoted political junkies, and its creators think the siteâs  audience will keep growing -- even after the November election.
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WASHINGTON, June 7  /PRNewswire/ -- washingtonpost.com, the award-winning news and information Web site, today fortified its position as the best local resource for the D.C. Metro area with the launch of "Local Life," a gateway to the most compelling local content available on the site.
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EditorÃ¢ÂÂs note: CQPolitics.com will provide results and analysis of the Texas 23 runoff contest Tuesday night.