OffTheBus (OTB) is a citizen-powered and –produced presidential campaign news site sponsored by the Huffington Post and NewAssignment.Net. Inspired by Timothy Crouse’s “Boys On The Bus,” an account of the 1972 contest between Nixon and McGovern that chronicles  a campaigns’ ability to manipulate the press and orchestrate campaign coverage, OTB was founded to better presidential campaign reporting. The project depends, in large part, on its on-the-ground citizen reporters and on cutting-edge distributed reporting techniques. For more information, check out the introductory blogposts by Arianna Huffington and Jay Rosen - the project's co-founders (Arianna Huffington: "OffTheBus: HuffPost's Citizen Journalism Project Gets A Name, and Gets Rolling"; Jay Rosen: "OffTheBus.Net Hires Two People Who Know How to Organize")

OffTheBus's masthead is here.

Want to get involved? Sign up to find out about collaborative reporting assignments. Submit your stories to OffTheBus by emailing campaigntrail@huffingtonpost.com.

To get ahold of the project director, send an email to amichel AT huffingtonpost.com or call 646 274 2450.