Subject: Re: Interview request
From: "Manriquez, Pablo" <[email-masked]>
To: "Dillon, Lauren" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Walker, Eric" <[email-masked]>, "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]>, "Paustenbach, Mark" <[email-masked]>, Corinne Matti <[email-masked]>, "Freundlich, Christina" <[email-masked]>, "Wei, Shu-Yen" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 07:16:01 -0700

Per Lauren’s request, I spoke with reporter and got additional details and guarantees. Below is the interview request in standard format. If possible for reporter, lock it in for a day this week?

WHO: Akshai and Luciana Lopez (Staffing Leads: Pablo/Walter)

WHAT: Recorded interview (phone or in-person) for article online and in print about how Democrats are prepared to attack Trump in Spanish in the general. A hook that can work for us both is that Luciana cover the development and release of our next bilingual video product. This would give her a behind-the-scenes look at how we monitor Spanish news and use it to win the election. Akshai’s story also helps promote our big tent party principles of diversity and inclusion by showing that Democrats are thinking outside of the box in 2016.

WHERE: DNC, at our convenience.

WHEN: Will lock-in interview time with reporter as soon as interview is approved.

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FLAGS —

Corinne/LD: Reporter agrees to keep any hardware, software, technology, specs out of the story.

Luis/Mark: If green-lit, I’ll work with Digital to get some high-quality photos for the story, as this will be most-impactful with visuals.

On May 3, 2016, at 4:07 PM, Dillon, Lauren <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:

Are you still planning to use Akshai? If so, I need to know more.

Thanks!

From: Manriquez, Pablo
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2016 4:06 PM
To: Walker, Eric
Cc: Miranda, Luis; Paustenbach, Mark; Corinne Matti; Dillon, Lauren; Freundlich, Christina; Wei, Shu-Yen
Subject: Re: Interview request

I'm think I'm going to shape this as a DNC diversity story, not a DNC process one. Any objections?

Sent from my iPhone

On May 2, 2016, at 5:30 PM, Walker, Eric <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:
I’m not totally opposed to the idea but it would have to be somewhat controlled. We could set up a ‘demo’ where we pretend that Trump just said a really offensive thing and then the process of clipping video and getting a release out the door…

From: Wei, Shu-Yen
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2016 5:24 PM
To: Manriquez, Pablo; Walker, Eric
Subject: RE: Interview request

Looping in Eric on this, not sure how the clearance process goes on this stuff

From: Manriquez, Pablo
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2016 5:07 PM
To: Wei, Shu-Yen
Subject: Fwd: Interview request

Begin forwarded message:

From: <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Subject: Interview request
Date: May 2, 2016 at 12:02:14 PM EDT
To: <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>

Hey Pablo, hope all is well. Quick question. I saw the Univision clip about RNC and DNC rapid response set-ups (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRp_2wmlp9o). Would it be possible to talk to Akshai Bhatnagar, who was among those interviewed in the segment, a bit more about his work? What goes into it, what he looks for? I’d love to build on my previous story about DNC efforts, and I think this might be one way to do that. Thank you!

Best,

Luciana

Luciana Lopez
Correspondent, Reuters 2016 Campaign Team
646 223 6319 (o)
646 937 1750 (m)
[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>
https://twitter.com/Luciana_F_Lopez

Pablo Manriquez
Democratic National Committee
Phone: 202.572.5488
Email: [email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>
web: democrats.org<http://www.democrats.org/>
Twitter: @Pablo_DNC

Pablo Manriquez
Democratic National Committee
Phone: 202.572.5488
Email: [email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>
web: democrats.org<http://www.democrats.org/>
Twitter: @Pablo_DNC