Want to write about
the artistic influence of campaign
bumper stickers? Have a yen to write about the write-in candidates voters list,
people like George Clooney and Oprah? The Scoop08,
“the first-ever daily national student newspaper,” is looking for high school and college journalists to write
about presidential campaign details other news organizations miss.
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RELATED RESOURCES
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* “The
Law: ABC’s of Political Reporting” by Kent State University instructor John
Bowen in the latest issue of Blend (Winter 2008, pp. 26-27). The story includes a
list of fact-checking Web sites.
* Poynter.org has a page of
links to articles, including coverage of race and the election.
* NewsU offers free online courses, including Understanding
and Interpreting Polls.
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Staffed
by high school and college students from around the nation, Scoop08 says its
advisers are journalists from Newsweek,
The New York Times, and other news
organizations, as well as former senators and a Survivor winner.
A Boston
Globe article says Scoop08 founders -- Alexander Heffner, 18, and Andrew
Mangino, 21 – provide a “student-centric take on
Campaign '08 - one in which the under-30 vote in states like Iowa and Texas has
tripled primary-vote totals from 2000 - is already looking well-timed.”
Need
inspiration? In 1976, a
12-year-old reporter scooped national news journalists on Jimmy Carter’s choice
of a running mate by a full day, according to a New
York Times article.
Go for it
– maybe you’ll get THE scoop of the 2008 election as a Rhetoric Correspondent or a Fashion Correspondent. The
Scoop08 also needs writers for more traditional party and issues beats.
-- Anne W. Anderson
