Summary
>Begin tracking Washington Post VA Politics and find out who the editor is.
>Follow the VCU/CNS Twitter account
> Reminder: Focus weekly “Virginia News” on: (try to find articles that are not behind firewalls like Virginia Mercury)
- State and Federal Virginia political news (especially when VA senators and House members and Virginia executives and Senators and Delegates are mentioned in articles.)
- Democracy related issues such as redistricting and voting rights;
- Internet related news including VA broadband infrastructure, books like Politics with the People, etc.
- Issues important to Virginia OnAir e.g. funding higher education
- Issues important to Virginia news curators e.g. abortion
> When linking to articles behind a firewall like Richmond Times Dispatch and Washington Post, add a $ sign.
OnAir Post: News Resources, Posts and Tweets
About
Washington Post – Virginia Politics
Knight Foundation study on how students engage with news
Weekly Virginia News Post
>Focus weekly “Virginia News” on: (try to find articles that are not behind firewalls like Virginia Mercury)
- State and Federal Virginia political news (especially when VA senators and House members and Virginia executives and Senators and Delegates are mentioned in articles.)
- Democracy related issues such as redistricting and voting rights;
- Internet related news including VA broadband infrastructure, books like Politics with the People, etc.
- Issues important to Virginia OnAir e.g. funding higher education
- Issues important to Virginia news curators e.g. abortion
Key News Sources to track
Virginia Mercury – Daily and Weekender (All VM articles are open source)
Washington Post Virginia Politics – These are copyrighted articles behind a firewall (3 free articles per month) Students in many cases have free access e.g. GMU
Some additional sources:
Politico
Vox
The Hill
CNN
The Atlantic
538 (The weekly podcast is thought by many as the best weekly overview of federal politics)
Twitter account- https://twitter.com/va_onair_cc
Username: virginiaelectionshub@gmail.com
Password: virginia2018
All members encouraged to follow our Twitter account
Hashtags
#VirginiaPolitics (For most or all tweets, include these hashtags)
#NoVAPolitics
#SEVAPolitics
#VirginiaIsForDemocracy
Starting Draft News Post
- Go to “Posts” > “Add new post” > “News”
- Add title e.g.Oct. 7 to Oct. 13, 2019 (abbreviate month if longer than 5 characters
- Go to “Author” and make sure lead author is first
- Go to “Publish” and select “Edit” in “Scheduled for: ________ Edit
- Enter the next Sunday’s date and time “12:00”
- Select “Update”
Note: Make sure you bookmark link so can access post over the week.
