by Pamela Powers Hannley
Back in February, the Huffington Post launced a contest to send a group of citizen journalists to the upcoming Democratic and Republican Conventions.
The winners were announced this morning. Eight people were selected– four for each convention.
AND I'M ONE OF THE WINNERS!!!!! Yipee!
Here is the announcement from Arianna Huffington.
After the jump is my video submission. Besides touting my qualifications in the two-minute video, I made a sentimental appeal. As a journalism student at Ohio State, I covered the 1972 McGovern-Shriver race for the Ohio State Lantern. My j-school partner and I traveled in the press bus with the national media– which was a trip because we were the only women on that bus except for a reporter from Time Magazine. Anyway, although Brigid and I wrote about the campaign, we never got to go to the convention that year. Forty years later, I'm going to the convention. :D So excited.
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Thanks, Laura. You were the first to tell me about the contest!
Congratulations Pamela — I knew you could do it! (From your former editor at Huff Post.)