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InsiderAdvantage recruiting bloggers for new site
By Gary Reese
December 17, 2007 — InsiderAdvantage, the nationally renowned pollster and media firm, is recruiting prominent political bloggers and others as credentialed correspondents for its new Internet News Agency website. The Atlanta-based company is moving rapidly to launch INA in early January. InsiderAdvantage is one of the top names in America for independent, non-partisan polling. But polling is only one of IA’s media services. It also publishes print magazines and newsletters; publishes free and subscription political news and analysis websites; produces live webcasts; and provides private information and analysis to businesses, governments and others. InsiderAdvantage was founded in 1999 by a group of investors that includes, among many others, The Morris News Service. IA now has offices in Atlanta, Washington DC, Tallahassee Fla., and Columbia, SC. Our media team includes Matt Towery, a Creators Syndicate columnist and our CEO; Tom Baxter, formerly the national editor for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution; Dick Pettys, for 35 years the Georgia Capitol correspondent for the Associated Press; Lee Bandy, for 40 years a political reporter for The State newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina; and Gary Reese, the founding editor of InsiderAdvantage media services. Our team also includes TV Emmy award winners. In January, IA will launch The Internet News Agency website with live webcasts, news and analysis by nationally known journalists, exclusive InsiderAdvantage polling, plus political and other news from our national network of field correspondents – maybe including you! INA correspondents will have what every blogger and political and news junkie most avidly seeks in today’s world of information overload – access to newsworthy events and people, plus readership of your written news reports, and viewership of your news videos. Plus, the INA website will feature links to direct our web visitors to your personal blogs and websites. In its start-up phase, INA will not offer paid compensation to correspondents. We are building a national network of correspondents, state by state. If you’d be interested in being considered as a correspondent for your state, you must: · -- Sign a non-disclosure agreement, in order to protect InsiderAdvantage/Internet News Agency trade secrets.· -- Declare your political allegiance, if any – “red” for Republican or conservative, “blue” for Democrat or liberal, or “purple” for political independent. While INA correspondents will be expected to report and analyze news events –and not to simply promote their own political or personal agendas – we realize, nevertheless, that political and other bias creeps into the best reporting. So, instead of denying bias altogether, as many news organizations do, we admit that it exists, and will have our field correspondents disclose their own biases. · -- Seek out and regularly submit news and analysis in your state, on political and other relevant and interesting topics; including, if possible, videos for webcasting. (While the presidential elections will be our primary focus in the coming months, it’s important for INA correspondents to seek out a full range of news events in their states.) If you're interested, contact Grayson Daughters at gdaughters@insideradvantage.com.
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