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With the conventions still fresh, voters will be turning to our newspapers to make sense of the political landscape as we approach the November election. Find out how you can make use of digital tools to cover the election during today's webinar, presented by Mandy Jenkins. Here are the details:
DIGITAL TOOLS FOR ELECTION COVERAGE: Learn how to use Twitter lists, Facebook lists, live-blog tools and user-contributed maps for election coverage.
Date: Thursday, Sept. 6
Time: 3-4 p.m. CDT
Audio: (877) 411-9748
Code: 630-956-8834
Presenter: Mandy Jenkins is the Interactives Editor for Digital First Media, where she oversees national data, video and curation strategy and coordinates editorial projects across the company's more than 200 local news sites. She was previously Social News Editor for The Huffington Post, where she managed social media efforts for the politics channel and coordinated the company's citizen journalism program, OfftheBus. Mandy was formerly the social media editor for Washington, D.C. local news startup TBD and the Cincinnati Enquirer. Mandy is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and blogs about news and social media at Zombiejournalism.com. Mandy is based in Washington, D.C.
