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MTV Signs Up Kids To Cover Election

MTV has signed on 51 young folks -- one in each state and the District of Columbia -- to cover the 2008 elections with weekly reports, including videos, blogs and animation. The stuff will be distributed through Think.MTV.com, mobile devices and the Associated Press.

The arrangement is part of the cable net's "Choose or Lose" political awareness campaign and is funded in part partly by a grant from a private journalism foundation. Participants will be given laptop computers, cell phones and video cameras and sent out to find political stories that resonate with youth.

Read the whole story at Associated Press via CBS News »

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