Campaign Tales is a new feature we’ve added to Your Agenda — your user forum on The Agenda with Steve Paikin.
It’s a brand new way to follow Ontario’s provincial election which officially kicks off September 10th. We’re carrying this new, on-line page for citizen correspondents to open more windows, microphones and lenses on what counts in this campaign.
We canvased local community activists from a dozen years of TVO current affairs stories, tapped alumni of the Ontario Citizens’ Assembly and recruited some regular users of the Agenda’s web site. About a dozen enthusiastic citizen correspondents have signed on for election 2007.
We’re also looking forward to posts from our future media and journalism professionals at Loyalist College in Belleville, Algonquin College in Ottawa and Centennial College in Toronto.
Campaign Tales will feature insightful articles and probing commentaries from emerging writers across the province. At times our correspondents’ Tales will offer an at-home and more personal feel to the larger election issues. Some of our correspondents will take full advantage of consumer technology by posting their campaign tales on video too. Edgy, risky, experimental? We’re open to the possibilities.
As always we support the principles of good journalism–accuracy, thoroughness, fairness and transparency. We hope you’ll watch and read the Campaign Tales posted here by your fellow citizens throughout election 2007. We encourage you to comment on what you see and join the dialogue on who represents us at Queen’s Park and how we are governed in the Ontario Legislature.
David Hawkins, Campaign Tales editor
