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The success of the E-Debate effort would not be possible without the generous, voluntary participation of the media organizations highlighted on this page. We wish to take this opportunity to thank them all for their tremendous help. |
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The success of the E-Debate effort would not be possible without the generous, voluntary participation of the media organizations highlighted on this page. We wish to take this opportunity to thank them all for their tremendous help. |
Channel 4000 is the Web site shared by WCCO-TV
and WCCO Radio in Minneapolis. Its staff plans to poll viewers about their top issues, and to establish an ongoing election-resources page including stories from the Channel 4000 news team and from the site's partners -- the 21 Sun Newspapers, independents like the Southwest Journal, and the Southwest newspaper chain representing Shakopee, Jordan, Chaska, Chanhassen, Prior Lake, and other cities. "We want to bring our election coverage down to a local level and will be pushing E-Democracy through it all," says C4K Publisher R.T. Rybak. Channel 4000 first came on board as an E-Democracy partner in 1996.
A principal goal of Checks & Balances is to engage the public with high quality information about Minnesota politics. The MN-FORUM debates provides an opportunity for the candidates to interact before the bloodletting of the political process occurs. Checks & Balances prides itself as the "One-stop Shop for Minnesota Politics." E-Democracy 98 and MN-FORUM are fine examples of what is possible.
KFAI-FM is the most recent of E-Democracy's partners to join the effort. In addition to its direct partnership, the station also ran a five-minute news segment on the E-debates following the E-Debate 98 press conference on Feb. 3. The station has also agreed to donate the services of politics reporter Katheryn Herzog to the five-member MN-FORUM media panel, which will critique the debate online on the evenings of Sunday, Feb. 15, and again on Sunday, Feb. 22.
According to Assistant News Director Alan Beck,
KMSP Channel 9 joined the E-Democracy
98 effort because, "It was a chance for us to reinforce our desire to remain
in the forefront of interactivity with our news presence. It is a great
way to explore what we view as an innovation, and also it was a way to
help create some measure of meaningful interactivity between voters." KMSP intends
to cover the E-Democracy 98 e-debates nightly on the "Wired" portion of
its 9 p.m. broadcasts.
Twin
Cities Public Television is committed to covering community affairs in
both the analog and digital realms. In keeping with that commitment, Newsnight
Minnesota and Almanac political reporter Mike Mulcahy will participate
in the E-Democracy 98 media panel, and KTCA's
The Tube website will link to the E-Democracy 98 home page.
"Only
our name is boring," say the folks at Minnesota
Law & Politics. They've been putting their unique stamp on
the local landscape for more than seven years. Now, in partnership with
E-Democracy 98, the magazine says it is pleased to dedicate a standing
section of its Web site to 1998 gubernatorial races. The section includes
archived copies of the E-Democracy debates, candidate profiles and campaign-related
news from the monthly magazine, and a collection of relevant -- and sometimes
irreverant -- links to elsewhere on the Web.
MN Online is a community-based Web site, sponsored by MRNet.
It is working with E-Democracy 98 to point visitors to Minnesota politics
and government
sites that are featured on MN Online.
MN-Politics.com features MN-Pulse, a monthly Minnesota Political public opinion poll. The site will soon feature a Voter Guide, which will include profiles of Minnesota's gubernatorial candidates and resources to help citizens evaluate the candidates.
PioneerPlanet is the online news and information service of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, delivering the breadth, depth, personality and journalistic integrity Twin Citians expect of Minnesota's oldest
newspaper. As the newspaper and Web site of Minnesota's capital city, the Pioneer Press and PioneerPlanet have a rich tradition of comprehensive coverage of public policy and politics. PioneerPlanet will publish transcripts of the e-debate.
A five-day daily
covering the state Capitol complex,
the St. Paul Legal Ledger
is a natural ally of E-Democracy 98 because of its shared commitment to
providing in-depth, primary source information on politics and public policy.
The Legal Ledger will reproduce substantial portions of the debate
in print throughout the two-week period.
Startribune.com extends the ability of the Star
Tribune to provide information beyond Minnesota to a global audience
via the Internet. In addition, startribune.com supplements traditional
news coverage by linking people to extra information and discussion relevant
to news stories. To supplement the Star Tribune's coverage of the governor's
race, startribune.com will provide links to E-Democracy's site when relevant,
and will provide an ongoing bulletin-board discussion as a sidetrack to
the e-debate. We will also publish a transcript of the e-debate that E-Democracy
provides.
twincities.sidewalk
is the Twin Cities personalized guide to
entertainment and recreation. As the experts in things to do around town,
Sidewalk couldn't miss the chance to recommend users participate in this
Web-based political forum as part of its editorial coverage. As the saying
says, "Go to Sidewalk.com. Then go experience something."
The
Utne Reader hosts Cafe Utne, which
is one of the largest Web conferencing sites on Earth -- it has been around since 1995 and continues to be one of the world's most active Web conferencing communities. In the "saloning" tradition, they have a dynamic and evolving community where their goal is to discuss ideas and issues in a thoughtful and respectful manner.
Go to Cafe Utne to discuss the E-Debate. To participate in their forum, you will first need to register.