Cory Booker: The New Media Politician
Few politicians use social media as openly, or prolifically, as Cory Booker. As the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, he has used Twitter to interact with his constituents on a daily basis, responding to questions and complaints at all hours of the day. The mayor has also used his social presence to spotlight his 2012 food stamp challenge, and assist residents in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. What has Booker learned about his community through his tweets, and how open does he actually think he can continue to be, as a candidate for the Senate?
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At TIME, I oversee daily digital editorial coverage, which includes the wrangling of more than 12 standalone verticals and the commissioning of hard news coverage and enterprise features. I also help to monitor our homepage, expand our social feeds and develop/run special projects. Earlier at TIME, I ran the TIME.com homepage, was the culture critic for the brand's first vertical (Techland) and helped to launch the site's viral news blog NewsFeed. Prior to TIME-LIFE, I was an arts critic (specializing in film and theater criticism) and features reporter (for Newsday and the Star-Ledger). And once upon a time, I worked with NBC in bringing the Olympics online. I continue to pen arts and technology criticism, am obsessed with covering the ways in which technology and social media are redefining the production/distribution of mainstream entertainment, and just for fun I continue to serve as artistic director for a Minneapolis-based film festival. If you want to talk Aronofsky or Soderbergh, I'm your guy.
I'm already looking forward to a week of food trucks and margaritas.
Sunday, March 10
