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Press
Releases
12/20/2007
MTV recruits
51 youths to cover 2008 elections on video; Associated Press
will help distribute
NEW YORK (AP) -- MTV, part of the media conglomerate Viacom
Inc., has recruited 51 youths to cover the 2008 elections
throughout the country with weekly reports that will include
short videos, blogs and animation.
The reports will be distributed through Think.MTV.com, an
issue-based political and community Web site run by MTV; to
mobile devices through a soon-to-be launched service called
MTV Mobile; and through The Associated Press' Online Video
Network, a video news service that is hosted by more than
1,800 Web sites.
The arrangement announced Thursday is part of MTV's "Choose
or Lose" political awareness campaign and was funded
partly by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation,
a private journalism foundation based in Miami.
The participants in the program will be equipped with laptop
computers, cell phones and video cameras and tasked with finding
political stories that will particularly resonate with young
people.
Participants in the "Street Team '08" project have
profiles on Think.MTV.com. MTV recruited one member from every
state as well as Washington, D.C.
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On the Net:
MTV's Think site: http://Think.MTV.com
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation: http://www.knightfoundation.org
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