• The Hollywood Reporter, Friday, June 27, 2008 9:45 AM

To get young people involved in the election and in their programming, NBC News, MSNBC.com and MySpace are running a contest among MySpace users for the job of covering the Democratic National Convention in Denver and the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis.

The contest is open to people over 18 who submit a short video answering simple questions. Five finalists will be voted on by the MySpace community in a sort of "Political Idol." In an election "that has so engaged people, it's right that we try to find ways to get original voices in the conversation around politics," says NBC News executive Mark Lukasiewicz.

Winners will get press credentials from MySpace to cover the conventions, and their videos and other work will appear on MySpace's Decision 2008 channel and perhaps on NBC News outlets.

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