New Hampshire Campaign News
Here are a few approaches to covering New Hampshire in presidential primary season -- one a weblog with MP3 audio, another a newspaper's investigative series on a local issue, and the campaign-related websites from New Hampshire newspaper and television journalists. Any campaign reporter should have a good collection of Web links to the state papers, and browse more than their political columns. Elsewhere, there's a blog to remind you that New Hampshire isn't first in the nation anymore.
Chris Lydon, on the Dean Trail.
With Dave Winer and his camera providing visuals, Lydon brought back an audio snapshot of a Howard Dean campaign event in Manchester. "This is a man who's collected in his mind, comfortable in his skin, and happy in his work," says Lydon, in his brief weblog intro to almost an hour of audio clips -- two from Dean and a third of "real, unrehearsed vox pop" from the Dean supporters gathering in Manchester.
"I heard less of the cranky-Yankee 'ay-yuh' New Hampshire accent in this crowd than I expected," Lydon says, advising listeners to "be prepared for some acidly anti-Bush views from an articulate, well-organized slice of public-sector Democrats."
(Ay-yuh, it's not every day that you hear someone from the Granite State talking about George Bush being "on the road to making us a fascist state." )
In-depth on local issues: N.H. manufacturing in decline.
While not a campaign story as such, the Nashua, N.H, Telegraph has a three-part series on New Hampshire's manufacturing industry this week, weaving statistics compiled by an economist with the stories of local businesses and workers affected...
Among other findings -- New Hampshire has lost 21 percent of its manufacturing jobs during the past three years -- a steeper decline than any other state. [From Investigative Reporters & Editors Extra! Extra!]
New Hampshire News Media
The Concord Monitor newspaper is using primarymonitor.com to keep archives of political coverage, links to candidates' site, and its own weblog. Down the road, the Manchester Union Leader Politics Page has a drop-down menu of presidential primary links and a set of candidate fact sheets, each accompanied by links to the most recent stories mentioning that candidate. Local television is online too, with WMUR labelling its campaign coverage Commitment 2004, with 500-word candidate profiles transcribed from accompanying Real Player video clips. New Hampshire Public Radio provides a keyword search to reach online versions of its primary coverage, including Real Player videoclips and rough transcripts.
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