Carla Babb wins MTV contest

ryanteaguebeckwith — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:25:14 -0500

Carla Babb won that MTV contest after all.

The UNC-Chapel Hill student became briefly famous back in October when staffers for Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards tried to kill a piece she produced for Carolina Week.

The reason they saw the piece in the first place was that she posted it on YouTube before it aired in order to qualify for an MTV "Choose or Lose" campaign.

Today, MTV announced that it had chosen Babb to be one of 51 "citizen journalists" to cover the presidential and Congressional races this coming year.

"We hope to find out whether or not our most important political event—the election of a president— matters to young people, and whether or not if matters more when it comes to them through the lens of their issues and the screen of their cell phone," said Eric Newton, vice president of journalism at the Knight Foundation, which is co-sponsoring the campaign.

He forgot YouTube.

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