How news sites can cover an election night – examples from Norway
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John Einar Sandvand has a fascinating overview, and some great links, from the recent Norway national elections on his site BetaTales.
John writes:
Several of the sites had prepared interactive graphics which where automatically updated as the results came in Services like Coveritlive and Twitter were used to report live from the different party headquarters News sites increasingly provide a platform for users to discuss the election resuts with each other. This was done by integrating Twitter hashtags into the news content as well as through use of Facebook Connect.
You will also be amazed at Norwegian newspapers in general. Much grittier and in-your face that American papers.
