The Washington Post’s Web site Announces Live Video Coverage of the Presidential Inauguration
WASHINGTON-(Business Wire)-January 13, 2009 - The Washington Post’s Web site, an award-winning news and information source, will produce live video coverage of President-elect Barack Obama’s Inaugural events on January 20th anchored by The Post’s Chris Cillizza, David Maraniss and Dana Priest.
The show will kick off when the Obama family leaves the Blair House. Cillizza will be on-site at the Capitol’s Inaugural platform anchoring the ceremony. Lois Romano and other Post political reporters will interview guests from the Capitol grounds and Inaugural events around the city.
The Post’s political and metro teams, including Dan Balz, David Broder and Kevin Merida, in addition to Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham and special political guests will provide analysis and in-depth reporting from the Post’s newsrooms.
“Our live political video programming quickly evolved from an experiment on Super Tuesday last year into a popular, anticipated video news source,” said Chet Rhodes, Assistant Managing Editor for News Video at washingtonpost.com. “With three locations and reporters feeding cell phone interviews from scenes around the area, Inauguration Day will mark our largest live video production to date.”
Reporters, using cell phone video cameras, will feed interviews onto the live show. Talking with people at the parade and on the National Mall, they will capture what is expected to be one of the largest Inaugural events in the nation’s history.
A discussion forum below the video player will let users ask questions and interact with the hosts. In addition, users have opportunities to share their perspectives on the Inauguration in a special, user-generated video feature. Users can submit videos using the Web application Seesmic.
In addition, a video series with Lois Romano interviewing many of Obama’s closest confidants begins today with Campaign Manager David Plouffe. “Voices of Power” will feature interviews with Obama’s White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers, top adviser David Axelrod, Environmental Czar nominee Carol Browner and others in the coming weeks.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2009/01/12/VI2009011203603.html?hpid=topnews
The Post’s Web site produced live video coverage of the 2008 Presidential Election, the Democratic and Republican conventions and five of the most contested presidential primaries. The Election Night special was syndicated to local, national and international news sites.
The live video will be available at the link below beginning at 8 am ET on January 20th and will conclude after the Inaugural parade.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/postpoliticstv
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