Last night, 16 graduate students in the Medill urban affairs reporting class fanned out across the city — from congressional candidate events to the Cook County Clerk’s office to the convention hall where President Obama would give his victory speech — reporting on events via blogging, tweeting and making instagram photos.
Check out their work here:
Medill Reports: Picturing an Election
I was kept busy backfielding and managing the coverage from a laptop as posts and tweets fed in from all across the city.
It was an exciting and mighty busy night.