Big thanks to BuzzFeed for naming our very own Picture Dept as one of the 54 tumblrs to follow in 2013!

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Tracking the presidential groundgame

As the two presidential campaigns launch into their final throws, we wanted to see who had the biggest footprint of campaign headquarters across the country. The map above ran with the resulting story showing Obama with a large advantage, especially in swing states. We thought getting from idea to map / chart would be as easy as checking the candidates’ websites or calling their press offices to request a full list. Not quite.

Finding Romney’s offices

Governor Romney’s campaign didn’t get back to our requests so we dug into their website. Romney only had volunteer offices in 16 states, each of which has a web page and a map showing office locations. Here’s Ohio’s. The data that powers the map is visible if you look at the Javascript files that power it, so we copied the data sixteen states into one file and saved it. They were in JSON file format — but more on that later.

Finding Obamas’s offices

President Obama has offices in many more states than Romney so going state by state is more of a hassle and his campaign’s website doesn’t have the same convenient state-by-state maps. Instead, you input your zip code and it gives you a map of all locations within forty miles of you. 

Needless to say, getting a comprehensive list by canvassing the country in 40 mile chunks was out of the question. Digging again into the javascript that powers the website (aside: the Obama website has some slick ASCII art in their source code), their volunteer center finder works by sending out a query that looks like this http://offices.barackobama.com/postal_code/10011/ with your zip code making up the those last five digits. If you put that in your browser and hit return you’ll see the centers closest to the Daily Beast offices in Manhattan…. (Read more)

We’re excited to show-off our newest Tumblr: NewsBeast Labs! As we write in the description, we’ll be giving you a peak at notes and images from our ever-growing digital newsroom. So if you’re into journalism, maps, data, pretty colors, etc. you should definitely follow. 

In which our art critic gets featured on the homepage of tumblr.com. Click here to follow Blake’s tumblr!

nwkarchivist:

We began this little thing called THE NEWSWEEK ARCHIVIST.  Thanks for visiting, and have a look back at the Archivist Archive that you might have missed.

Congrats on  your one-year tumblrsary!

To our dismay, Twitter has restricted our users’ ability to ‘Find Twitter Friends’ on Tumblr. Given our history of embracing their platform, this is especially upsetting.

A Tumblr spokesperson on Twitter’s unfriending.

Looks like our inflammatory mix of McKayla Maroney coverage and Paul Ryan insta-analysis has the overlords in Yemen locking down the hatches. Can, uh, anyone in Yemen confirm this? Weird.

Keith Olbermann is on tumblr! Welcome, sweet, sometimes angry prince of the teevee. [h/t @BuzzFeed]

Cats, Mr. Zimmerman said, are a surefire bet, as are stories about zombies and videos of flash mobs or public marriage proposals.

There it is, Tumblr.

(Source: The New York Times)

We’re about to give a little presentation to the NewsBeast interns, part of which will be demonstrating the awesomeness of Tumblr. If you’d like to say hello, or offer one word of advice for this class of interns, send us a message and we’ll show it in the meeting! Bonus points for gifs.