When David Bennahum, the president and CEO of the Center for Independent Media, a progressive organization based in Washington, D.C., decided to create his first state-based spinoff, he looked to Colorado. His creation went live last year.
David S. Bennahum (French-American) posted a brief piece on abolishing the Electoral College, because its set up unfairly.
“For those of us who want to reform the Electoral College, by either abolishing it or changing it state by state to remove the “winner take all” principle, now is the time to self-organize and start a process to get others on board.”
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Citizen Media Comes To Washington
Posted by Danny | 09:35 AM
The Center for Independent Media, which operates the blogs Colorado Confidential, Iowa Independent, Michigan Messenger and Minnesota Monitor, is expanding its operations to Washington and is looking for a couple of leaders to run the shop.
First on the list is a Washington news editor. “You will develop news, investigative and feature stories with a team of full-time reporters and part-time contract contributors,” the job listing says. “You will combine the best of traditional journalism with the new paradigms of the Internet.”
The Washington news editor will work with Jefferson Morley, who earlier this month decided to leave The Washington Post to become the center’s national editorial director. “With Jeff’s magazine experience from The Nation and New Republic, daily newspaper experience from The Washington Post, and track record as an editor of the Post’s Web site, Jeff is ideally suited to help lead the way to the 21st-century newsroom,” David Bennahum, the center’s president and CEO, said in a statement.
The other job now being advertised for the center as a part-time (30 hours a week) managing editor. It entails training and supporting reporters, as well as recruiting new writers. The center is looking for candidates with at least two years of Washington experience in news or policy and also online news experience.
Here’s a description of the outfit from the job listing: “The center’s programs emphasize the importance of citizen-driven journalism as a critical founding principle of our nation, the positive role of democratically elected government in securing the common good and social welfare, and the continuing benefits of our founding culture of government by the people, for the people.”
The center figured in a blog scandal last year when folks at the Minnesota Monitor clashed with Republican blogger Michael Brodkorb of Minnesota Democrats Exposed over the appropriate way to disclose financial relationships on blogs.
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