Monitor news sources for events

[pnijjar]

Some people need to look at websites to populate our events pages in an ongoing way.

Metroland Media

• https://newhamburgindependent.ca
• https://cambridgetimes.ca
• https://kitchenerpost.ca
• https://waterloochronicle.ca

Other media

• Community Cord
• Waterloo Region Record

[acant]

I was already collecting a list of Newspapers and Magazines:

• https://gitlab.com/acant/kwdashboard.ca#newspapersmagazines

The relevant ones are:

• http://www.kitchenercitizen.com/
• http://www.therecord.com/waterlooregion/
• https://communityedition.ca/
• https://observerxtra.com/
• http://www.cbc.ca/kitchener-waterloo/
• https://www.kitchenertoday.com/

These might include some information about events/fundraisers that could be relevant:

• http://www.grandmagazine.ca/
• https://kitchenerwaterloo.snapd.com/

[pnijjar]

Can we get people to volunteer to monitor one or two of the news sites and feed us relevant links? We can keep a list of the assigned roles here. If we get lots of volunteers then the roles can overlap.

[pnijjar]

I got RSS feeds for the sites that were easy:

• ObserverXtra
• Cambridge Times
• Waterloo Region Record
• New Hamburg Independent (which isn't)
• Waterloo Chronicle
• Kitchener Post
• The Community Edition

These lists will not be comprehensive, because where possible I am narrowing articles tagged with "Municipal Election" or "Election"

I could not find good ways to monitor the following, but they are still worth following. Some kind of change RSS might be useful here.

• http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/topic/Tag/Waterloo%20Region%20Votes%202018
• https://www.kitchenertoday.com/local-news

It would be nice if somebody else would volunteer to keep an eye on these two.

There are other news sources to investigate.
election-news-sites.opml.gz

[acant]

Excellent, I started to collect some of these too, but you found more than I did.
I am going to be busy over the next week, but I can start monitoring after August 25, unless someone else has picked up this task before then.

[acant]

@pnijjar added an OPML of some of the RSS feeds
https://gist.github.com/pnijjar/f27bf679a09f5e8125c5383dd37d24f7