On Tuesday, April 19, we will run a live blog about the New York presidential primary vote.
Some of you will be asked to use class time to go out and report, posting photos and quotes on Instagram. Some students assigned as editors will be in the classroom, curating your reporting and posting to the blog.
Everyone in class should come up with a quick, easy post that we can publish on Tuesday. Since some of you might not have time to do reporting on Tuesday because of work and class commitments, you should find something related to the primary that you can report on over this weekend. Then, you can come to class on Tuesday and write up your post. Obviously, this isn’t ideal for a live blog, but it is the only realistic way to do an exercise like this.
HASHTAG: #newyorkvotes – ALL POSTS TO INSTAGRAM, TWITTER, SOUNDCLOUD NEED TO CARRY THAT HASHTAG
CLASS INSTAGRAM ACCOUT: NY PRIMARY 2016. Username: nyprimary Password: baruchvotes
Some ideas:
On Tuesday, some of you could post photos and impressions of scenes outside polling places around the city. You can’t report from inside polling places, but you can photograph scene outside.
Someone could do a quick audio podcast describing his or her experiences voting in the primary.
A team of you could go out with a video camera and do some quick man-in-the-street interviews with New Yorkers in Madison Square Park. We’d have to figure out a couple of good questions to give this feature a strong focus. It would be best for students with previous video experience to work on this one.
Someone might like to visit Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue and describe the scene there on Election Day, take some photos.
For those of you who want to do your reporting over the weekend, here are some ideas.
Take a walk in your neighborhood, interview some people about what they think about the election, take their photos, grab some quotes. Do a post on how election is playing out in a particular neighborhood.
Find a local election-related event happening around the city and go and do some reporting.
Here are some
Bernie Sanders events
Sunday, April 17, big rally in Prospect Park
Doors open at noon, music starts at 3 pm
east side entrance near boathouse
Monday, April 18, concert in LIC
Hunter’s Point South Park
7pm
Center Blvd off of 54th Ave
Bernin’ the Barrio (April 17)
https://go.berniesanders.com/page/event/detail/volunteeractivityormeetings/44v39
April 17
Latinos for Bernie in Union Square
https://go.berniesanders.com/page/event/detail/volunteeractivityormeetings/44538
Hillary
April 16
Asians for Hillary
https://www.hillaryclinton.com/events/view/2NXTPMRM5ELU77HO/
Other off-topic ideas:
Visit a couple of historical presidential sites in the city (Federal Hall, Teddy Roosevelt’s childhood home, Grant’s tomb) and do a post about presidential NYC.
See if any local bars or restaurants are doing election-related dinners/parties.
Do a post on campaign fashion – research what each campaign is offering in terms of T-shirts, campaign buttons, etc.
In class: round up of news stories, interesting quotes from voters, photo gallery of people instagramming from polling places. Check in on what candidates are tweeting.
We could do a report on Baruch students and the election.
NY1 Baruch poll
How to follow Twitter…..