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Media study: Don’t ‘bombard’ young voters with election news

Via Romenesko: Young voters don't want too much information — and often feel overwhelmed by the deluge of election coverage on news sites, according to a Northwestern University Media Management Center study released Tuesday. The study of Chicago-area "millennials," age 17-22, urged news outlets to deliver content more in keeping with the ways young voters want to consume information in an environment rich with competitions for time and attention.

PEW: Youth-Driven Demographic Shift Moves the Electorate Left

A new report by the PEW Research Center confirms what rising primary turnout is already telling us: there is a huge demographic shift approaching...

Young Voters Snubbed as Dem Convention Delegates

Are the much-vaunted 2.7 million young people who have turned out in record number for Democratic presidential candidates Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama...

‘Youth to Power’ Comes to Colorado

Join Center for Independent Media fellow Mike Connery and author of "Youth to Power: How Today's Young Voters are Building Tomorrow's Progressive Majority," for...

Live Q&A with Youth Vote Expert Mike Connery

Center for Independent Media fellow Mike Connery, author of "Youth to Power: How Today's Young Voters are Building Tomorrow's Progressive Majority," joined us this...

COMING: Live Q&A with Youth Vote Expert Mike Connery

Join Center for Independent Media fellow Mike Connery, author of "Youth to Power: How Today's Young Voters are Building Tomorrow's Progressive Majority," for...

Martini Specials and F-bomb Shirts: A New Era for Colorado Politics

The leaders of New Era Colorado promised a different kind of candidates' forum Wednesday night. When some would-be Boulder City Council members mounted the...