The News 12 online Voter Guide provided an easy-to-use interactive map that outlined all of the races throughout Long Island, with bios of candidates and videos of candidates’ final statements from News 12 televised debates.
The Voter Guide was supplemented by the Island Vote ’08 live blog from four election headquarters across Long Island. Each producer was given a Flip cam and a laptop, and in four hours, we produced nine raw videos and about 30 quality posts. We also had a producer at headquarters firing off Twitter updates throughout the night and ongoing breaking news stories on our main site.
The faces of corporate directors on Long Island. Changing, but according to many, not changing fast enough.
One sign that directors are playing a greater role is they are often paid what looks like a full-time employee’s salary – and a well-paid employee at that. The median household income for a family of four in New York is $69,000; in 2005, the average board member at Long Island’s 10 biggest public companies was paid $104,000, according to a Long Island Business News analysis of Securities and Exchange Commission documents.
They operate largely behind closed doors, collecting a full-time salary for, at most, half-time work, not to mention stock and such extra perks as travel.
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