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Articles tagged election coverage (18)

“The problem with voting stories is that the people who make themselves most available don’t know what the hell they’re talking about.”
Texting “seemed like a way to allow people to pare the constant stream of news down to just what mattered to them the most.”
People from 433 out of 435 congressional districts have signed up for ProPublica’s User Guide to Democracy, reporters from the Philadelphia Inquirer and the New York Times want you to text them, and more. Christine Schmidt
“If we could start to really connect people around story ideas before they’re reported, in a way that makes sense and is using technology in a savvy way and make it efficient to do, we would be really interested in doing that.” Caroline O'Donovan
“This isn’t about competition for us at Tumblr — we just want to tell good stories and get them out to as many people as possible.” Justin Ellis
Plus: Sandy and the power of Instagram’s images, Google News’ showdown with newspapers, and the rest of the week’s media and tech news and commentary.
Obama for America becomes the first political group to experiment with BuzzFeed’s new approach to advertising.
The news outlet’s first API offers up poll results as well as detailed methodology data.