November 1, 2007
Getting the Political Scoop
Political junkies looking to get the latest scoop will have one more source of campaign news when the Web site Scoop08.com goes live this Sunday.
But this online news site has a twist: It will be produced by high-school and college journalists.
Billing itself as the “first-ever daily national student newspaper,” Scoop08 is promising to cover the presidential election from a different perspective, with beats including democracy, political theory, and financial aid. It also pledges to follow all the candidates, including those who have yet to jump into the race, like Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York.
The two founders and editors are Alexander Heffner, 17, a senior at the Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., and Andrew Mangino, 20, a junior at Yale and the politics reporter for the Yale Daily News. Although they met as interns on Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s re-election campaign last year, they say Scoop08 will be nonpartisan.
The site also boasts an advisory board of political and journalistic heavyweights, including former presidential candidate Gary Hart, Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, and Frank Rich, a columnist for the New York Times.
Karin Fischer | Posted on Thursday November 1, 2007 | PermalinkComments
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