If You Can’t Beat ‘em, Join ‘em: Baltimore Sun Offers Blogs to All Maryland Candidates

Also published on epolitics.com Call it innovation, call it self-preservation, call it a traffic scheme, but the Baltimore Sun, one of the leading papers covering Maryland politics, has made the decision to offer a blog to every legally registered candidate running for office in the state of Maryland. The offer is bi-partisan and covers both [...]

Five Talents Campaign Managers Should Look For in a New Media Director

As the fall elections draw near, many campaigns are staffing up.  By virtue of being on many online politics-related listservs, I’ve seen a number of postings for new media directors on campaigns. However, the postings portrait the new media director position as nothing more than glorified content intern and highlight the fact campaigns are not [...]

In case you missed it: My first guest post On epolitics.com

I spent a week in Massachusetts helping the Coakley campaign.  After the loss, a slew of blog posts and news articles were written analyzing the online component of the race.  However, I felt that they all lacked something – an insider’s perspective.  I sought to expand on the commentary already in the blogsphere about what [...]