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Star Tribune wants you Politically Connected
A website serving a smorgasbord of politics, local and national, debuts Monday.
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The Star Tribune launched a new website this week that aims to be a one-stop shop for all things political in Minnesota. The site, Politically Connected, will particularly focus on the 2008 elections.
"The Internet has a wealth of political information, but it's very specialized and very fractured," said Dennis McGrath, a longtime Star Tribune editor who will oversee the site.
"What Politically Connected will do is not only give you the Star Tribune's political news, but it will also sweep in all of the different political content that's out there and assemble it in one place so visitors to this site can spend less time searching ... and more time reading it, watching it and debating it," he said.
Politically Connected --accessible at www.startribune.com/politics -- features a main news-of-the-day page, as well as pages on specific political races and individual candidates, weekly podcasts on Minnesota politics, staff-produced blogs, links to blogs across the political spectrum and archival information.
"We give a lot of information about what's going on that day or that week in politics, but it gets lost [in time]," Star Tribune Editor Nancy Barnes said. "We want to collect it and archive it and engage people in the discussion."
It's likely to be a lively site during the next 13 months.
"The presidential race is obviously wide open, there's the potential that we could have a woman nominee for a major political party, we've got what appears to be a very competitive U.S. Senate race, and we've got the Republican national convention here to top it all off," McGrath said.
Barnes said that in addition to informing the public, the website has the potential to generate revenue.
"Over time, we hope to get political advertising as people see it is the place to come for political news and information," she said.
JEFF SHELMAN
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