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Election Coverage, New Media-Style

How technology turbo-charged this year's campaign reporting

By E.B. Boyd – December 8, 2008
Remember the 2004 presidential cycle, when newspaper reporters were looking askance at those blogger types, wondering why they were being given passes to the national conventions and arguing heatedly about whether "blogs" constituted "real" journalism? Four years later, the winners in that debate are neither the traditional journalists, nor the new-world "citizen journalists," but ...
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