What you can hold us to
Publishing about social media and political campaigns without saying how you work is asking for trust you have not earned. This is how we work.
Standards
Sourcing, checking, bylines, dates and commercial links, set out so you can judge what you read on Campaign 08 Blog.
Publishing about social media and political campaigns without saying how you work is asking for trust you have not earned. This is how we work.
The date you see is real. A tidy up of wording leaves it alone; only a change to what the piece recommends moves the modified date, along with a note saying so.
We attach a person to every article on purpose. It means a mistake costs the writer something, which is the strongest quality control a site this size has.
Lena Okafor, Editor. Lena ran the website of a regional newspaper during the 2008 primaries and has followed online campaigning ever since. She edits the blog and writes about social platforms and civic tech.
Martin Ashby, Games writer. Martin has played political strategy and simulation games for twenty years, from Diplomacy by mail to modern election simulators. He writes about what those games get right about campaigns and what they flatten.
Rosalind Chu, Political media writer. Rosalind studies political advertising and online video and keeps an archive of campaign clips going back to 2007. She writes about ads, video and how attention gets bought.
A minority of outbound links are commercial. None of them have ever changed a sentence that was written before the link existed.
If a partner asks us to remove a criticism, the answer is no, and the request itself may end up mentioned in a future article.
What gets written is decided by demand, not by a schedule. A question that keeps arriving, from readers or from our own work, becomes a page. A clever keyword with no real question behind it does not.
Write to [email protected] with the page address and what is wrong. Factual errors are fixed quickly. If the correction changes the conclusion of a piece, we add a short note at the foot of the page rather than quietly editing it.