washingtonpost.com and Newsweek.com Announce Live Web Video Coverage from the Democratic and Republican Conventions

Business Wire, August 18, 2008

Seven Hours of Live Convention Coverage a Day

Anchored by Jon Meacham and Chris Cillizza

Reporters to Live Stream Video from Cell Phones

WASHINGTON -- washingtonpost.com and Newsweek.com today announce that The Washington Post political team, in partnership with Newsweek's political team, will provide live Web video coverage of the 2008 conventions, with reporting and analysis, from the Post's convention headquarters, anchored by washingtonpost.com's Chris Cillizza and Newsweek's Jon Meacham.

"Convention '08" election coverage will highlight convention events, candidate speeches, political action taking place on the Web and offer interactive viewer participation.

washingtonpost.com and Newsweek.com reporters, using a cutting-edge cell phone application from Comet Technologies will be some of the first to live-stream video from their cell phones into a live Web cast. Reporters will stream convention developments and questions from people directly onto "Convention '08," offering audiences a heightened layer of real-time video coverage. In addition, a live discussion platform online below the video screen will give viewers the ability to interact with anchors and guests.

"We continue to explore innovative ways for readers to engage with our leading political team and get the most in-depth news as it happens," said Jim Brady, Executive Editor of washingtonpost.com. "Our live video and our ability to incorporate reporters' uncut footage straight from their mobile phones will give users a conventions experience like never before."

Top reporters and columnists at The Washington Post, including David Broder, Dan Balz, Anne Kornblut and Dana Milbank, plus Newsweek's Howard Fineman, Richard Wolff, Jonathan Alter and Eleanor Clift will deliver the Web's most intelligent, in-depth analysis of political events as they happen.

Prominent Web political and media figures will join in the conversation, including The Daily Kos's Markos Moulitsas, YouTube's Steve Grove, The Huffington Post's Arianna Huffington, MySpace's Lee Brenner, Bob Boorstin from Google, Facebook's Chris Kelly, Jeff Jarvis from BuzzMachine, MoveOn.org's Eli Pariser, Crooks and Liars's John Amato, and Voto Latino's Maria Teresa Peterson.

"We're committed to giving our users and readers the best perspective we can on this historic race, and the Web casts have proven to be an engaging way of offering reporting and analysis that people cannot find anywhere else," said Jon Meacham, Editor of Newsweek.

"Convention '08" will air twice a day, Monday through Thursday, from 4 - 6 pm and 7 - 11 pm ET during the weeks of the Democratic and Republican conventions.

Tammy Haddad and Chet Rhodes are the Executive Producers of "Convention 08" coverage.

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About Newsweek

Founded in 1933, Newsweek provides comprehensive coverage of national and international affairs, business, culture, science and technology, and arts and entertainment. Headquartered in New York, Newsweek has 20 bureaus located in the U.S. and around the globe. In addition to its U.S. edition, Newsweek publishes three English-language editions overseas and is the only news magazine with six weekly local-language editions--in Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Polish, Arabic Chinese and Russian. Newsweek's worldwide circulation is more than 3.5 million and a total readership of more than 21 million. The magazine appears in more than 190 countries. Newsweek holds more National Magazine Awards, given by the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME), than any other newsweekly.

Newsweek.com, launched in Oct. 1998, offers daily news updates, Web-only columns from Newsweek's top writers, photo galleries, audio and video reports from correspondents, podcasts, mobile content and archives as well as all content from the weekly print edition. The site has won more than 20 awards since 2002 and has been nominated twice for a National Magazine Award.