Gather.com, WMUR-TV Pact for Debates

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NEW YORK WMUR-TV in Manchester, N.H., the station at ground zero for presidential politics, is turning to the blogging community to recruit citizen journalists for the upcoming June presidential debates.

Throughout the month, the Hearst-Argyle Television ABC station has partnered with Gather.com to sponsor an open writing competition (“Your Voice, Your Vote, Your Next President”) to find 15 citizen journalists (five Democrats, five Republicans and five Independents). Selected by the blogging community, the citizen journalists will cover the June 3 Democratic and June 5 Republican debates simulcast on WMUR, CNN and their respective Web sites.

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