Since 1984, National Journal has produced a daily tabloid at the national political conventions for delegates, party officials, convention organizers, and the media. This summer will be no exception: We'll be in Denver and the Twin Cities with one of the biggest contingents of journalists (if not the biggest contingent) among the news organizations converging on the convention locales.
This preview issue of Convention Daily should give you an inkling of what to expect. We'll be distributing Convention Daily for free each morning from Sunday through Thursday during both convention weeks--at delegate hotels, media work areas, and other convention-related venues.
Convention Daily will include convention news and analysis, plus information you can use--media-workspace maps, key phone numbers, and the like. Our daily events schedule, with its lists of convention-floor activities, press conferences, and parties, is one of Convention Daily's most popular features; if you'd like to submit an item, e-mail us at schedule@nationaljournal.com.
This year, National Journal Group will also be providing:
• Convention Nightly, a late-afternoon publication that will catch you up on the day's events, before the start of the convention proceedings each night.
• Daily reports from The Hotline on how the conventions are playing in the news media around the country. Also, Hotline's blog On Call will be reporting the latest political news from Denver and Minneapolis-St. Paul.
• Free access to NationalJournal.com, where you'll be able to find all the stories being written for Convention Daily, Convention Nightly, and The Hotline, plus online-exclusive material posted throughout the day and night. Helping distinguish the site will be its wealth of political resources, including a compilation of all the promises that John McCain and Barack Obama have made during the campaign. Subscribers can also sign up to receive e-mail or BlackBerry alerts on convention-related news by going to NationalJournal.com/conventions.
• And we'll be distributing free copies of special issues of National Journal magazine at convention-area sites. The issues will be devoted to campaign- and convention-related news.
This article appeared in the Saturday, August 2, 2008 edition of National Journal.
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