Cory Booker, Internets Favorite Mayor, Creates Media Site for Teens

Cory Booker, the socially savvy mayor of Newark, N.J., who has used Twitter to help residents burrow out of foot-deep snow and whose other heroics have spawned the "Super Mayor" meme, is co-founding a media startup aimed at the millennial generation called #waywire.

The centerpiece of #waywire will be video content created by youth to highlight the issues most important to them and their local communities. #waywire will also include professional-quality original content as well as links to news reports from traditional media outlets for users to share and discuss. Users' videos as well as discussions sparked by those videos will carry over to other social platforms to further drive co…
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