Democrats go Door to Door
With 17 days remaining before the 2008 elections, the Citizen Action Network of Central New York went door to door about the issue that matters to them: healthcare. The group of Democrats started at the local library with a rally and keynote speech by then-congressional-candidate Dan Maffei. (Maffei was later elected.) After the rally, the group went door to door and found their neighbors open and agreeable to their political points.
These stories were part of team coverage in both the Syracuse University NCC newscast and on the “Newshouse” website. They were balanced by other journalists’ coverage of the republican campaigns.
There are two versions of this story to demonstrate the difference between a standard reporter package that would air on television, and the multimedia version that is better suited to the internet user.
I call the second version a “nat [natural] package.”