By The UpTake Minnesota will have a new Governor, don't you want to know who it will be? The UpTake records, MinnPost Reports.
In the heat of the 2010 gubernatorial race in Minnesota we hope to highlight the race with the coverage of two of the leading new media organizations in the State of Minnesota. MinnPost and The UpTake.
With the cutback of political reporters at every major newspaper in the state, the need for more political coverage is clear, we will have a new Governor come November, and the citizens of Minnesota need to know as much as they can about everyone in the race. This means we need more, more stories written, more video captured and more questions asked.
We've decided that our communities who rely on our coverage may also share these goals and we are excited to be using Spot.us to help us crowd-fund this story idea.
MinnPost is digital news organization that each day provides high-quality journalism for the Twin Cities and Minnesota. MinnPost is a nonpartisan news site that covers government, politics, public affairs, the arts, business and sports Monday through Friday.
MinnPost’s staff of editors and reporters is made up entirely of professional journalists, and MinnPost employs some of the most respected journalists in the Upper Midwest.
MinnPost employs a full-time correspondent to cover Congress and report on events in Washington, D.C., and has sent its journalists overseas to cover major news events, including the war in Iraq and the Summer Olympics in Beijing. MinnPost has offered its readers extensive staff-produced coverage of both parties’ national political conventions and also provided daily and highly-praised coverage of the recount of the Norm Coleman-Al Franken Senate election contest. MinnPost has journalists covering news throughout Minnesota, including at the Minnesota Legislature.
MinnPost’s reporters are experienced and well-sources journalists who have regular contact with the major candidates running for governor in Minnesota.
The UpTake is one of the nation’s leading online video news organizations, demonstrating how powerful and how deeply stories can be told with the coverage of the Minnesota Recount and Trial between Norm Coleman and Al Franken. We have hundreds of volunteers, a well-honed training program and proven organizational skills to get those volunteers to the right place at the right time with the right equipment. As a member of the Minnesota Capitol Press Corp, The UpTake has press access to events, places and people not usually available to the general public. The UpTake wishes to again dive deeply, this time with the Minnesota Gubernatorial race.
This would allow MinnPost to employ a reporter from June to November to focus full-time on the campaign and coordinate coverage with The UpTake, including developing joint word-and-video projects on the campaign.
For The UpTake, this will allow one videographer to be out gathering footage from the candidates. It does not guarantee full-coverage of all candidates, but it would provide unprecedented coverage of the gubernatorial race costing roughly $4000 a month starting in June and running through November.
