{"id":1623,"date":"2013-08-27T13:17:36","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T13:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=1623"},"modified":"2013-08-27T13:17:36","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T13:17:36","slug":"matthew-gagno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/matthew-gagno\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 76: Director of Digital Strategy at Republican Governors Association & Editor in Chief of Pine Tree Politics Matthew Gagnon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show Information<\/h5>\n

Show:<\/strong> 76
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday, August\u00a024
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Matthew Gagnon
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Mark Gould (Sharky)
\nAssistant Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Matthew Gagnon grew up in the Bangor suburb of Hampden, Maine.\u00a0 Gagnon became involved in Maine politics from a very young age.\u00a0 He studied Political Science at the University of Maine, and involved himself in campus and town politics.<\/p>\n

After UMaine, he moved to Washington, D.C. where he began a career in professional politics.\u00a0 He has served as the Director of New Media Communications for Maine Senator Susan Collins.\u00a0 \u00a0In the 2010 election cycle, Gagnon was the Deputy Director of Digital Strategy at the National Republican Senatorial Committee, where he coordinated the online campaigns for 37 U.S. Senate races across the country.<\/p>\n

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Steve Woods (left), host of TideSmart Talk with Stevoe, was recently\u00a0in the studio with Director of Digital Strategy at the Republican Governors Association and the Editor in Chief of Pine Tree Politics Matthew Gagnon (right).<\/p><\/div>\n

Gagnon\u00a0told Stevoe about his role in digital communications, especially\u00a0with regard to politics.\u00a0 Gagnon discussed how\u00a0in\u00a02008, the Democrats tried to model what the Republicans had done in 2004 with microtargeting.\u00a0 During President Obama’s campaign,\u00a0 if a person on Facebook\u00a0said they were “In” with his campaign, it provided a data profile on how to pursue them for their vote.<\/p>\n

Presently, Gagnon is the Editor in Chief of Pine Tree Politics<\/a>, where he blogs about Maine politics.\u00a0 He is also the Director of Digital Strategy for the Republican Governors Association<\/a> (RGA). \u00a0Here he is responsible for coordinating and executing all digital campaigns, including online advertising, web development, online fundraising, email engagement, and social media outreach.<\/p>\n

Currently, he lives in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife Erin and his five year old son, Alec.\u00a0Gagnon considers himself a Mainer in exile, and looks forward to the day when he is able to return home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During an interview for TideSmart Talk with Stevoe, host Steve Woods and the Director of Digital Strategy at the Republican Governors Association and the Editor in Chief of Pine Tree Politics Matthew Gagnon talked in-depth about Maine politics. The two also discussed the outmigration of 18-34 year olds in the state of Maine and the importance of the three urban clusters of Lewiston\/Auburn, Bangor and Portland. Gagnon described for Stevoe how after he founded Pine Tree Politics in 2008, he knew he was a journalist when people began pitching him ideas. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}