PRESS
RELEASE
from
NPR
October 31, 2012 |
Contact:
Anna Christopher, NPR |
NPR NEWS "ELECTION 2012"
TO OFFER SEVEN HOURS OF LIVE ELECTION NIGHT COVERAGE,
ON-AIR AND ONLINE, FROM 8PM TO 3AM (ET)
"ELECTION
2012"
TEAM TO PROVIDE COVERAGE, ANALYSIS FROM D.C., CAMPAIGN
HEADQUARTERS, 16 KEY STATES
NPR.ORG ELECTION
HUB: LIVE STREAM AND BLOGGING, INTERACTIVE ELECTORAL RESULTS
Concluding months of comprehensive coverage of
Election 2012,
NPR News will offer seven hours of live on-air and online election
coverage on November 6, 2012. Anchored from NPR headquarters in
Washington, D.C. - with journalists reporting from campaign
headquarters and from more than a dozen cities across the country -
NPR's extensive broadcast coverage of the general election will include
live and original reports, exit polls, analysis and reaction. All NPR
coverage will also be available by live stream at
NPR.org, which will transform into an
election hub with constant blogging, election results and in-depth
reporting.
NPR's election coverage will air on NPR Member Stations across the
country; for local stations and broadcast times, visit
www.NPR.org/stations. On-air
coverage will also be streamed free and live at
www.NPR.org and be available on NPR's
mobile apps and mobile web.
Two teams will guide NPR's seven hours of election night coverage in
Studio 4A:
All Things Considered
hosts Robert Siegel and Melissa Block from 8:00PM to midnight (ET),
with Guy Raz and Audie Cornish anchoring the broadcast from midnight to
3:00AM (ET). Joining the hosts will be members of NPR's "Election 2012"
team, with White House correspondents Ari Shapiro and Scott Horsley
reporting from the Romney and Obama campaign headquarters in Boston and
Chicago, respectively. Numerous journalists will also report from
strategic states across the country - many of which have critical
Congressional and gubernatorial races - including: Arizona, Colorado,
Connecticut, Florida, Iowa, Indiana, Missouri, New Hampshire, Nevada,
North Dakota, Ohio, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin. NPR will also provide
exit polls from Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin, Colorado and Virginia.
Offering analysis throughout the evening will be NPR Washington Desk
editor Ron Elving, political correspondent Mara Liasson and political
editor Ken Rudin in Washington, D.C. They will be joined by partisan
analysts E.J. Dionne,
Washington Post columnist and senior
fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Matt Continetti of
The
Washington Free Beacon.
Andrew Kohut and Michael Dimock of the Pew Research Center will provide
analysis as exit polls become available. NPR correspondents, including
Nina Totenberg, Julie Rovner and Pam Fessler, will offer reporting on
state-by-state news during the live special.
NPR.org is the comprehensive hub for
NPR's
Election 2012
coverage: from a live stream of the election night broadcast, to
blogging and analysis, to interactive tools for tracking the weight of
electoral votes:
Swing State Scorecard Interactive: http://n.pr/RTuFJn
This game-like feature helps users discover different paths to
victory as candidates capture electoral votes in swing states. NPR
began by charting the votes firmly or leaning towards both candidates:
237 for President Obama and 206 for Romney - leaving 95 up for grabs.
Designed to guide voters through the electoral process, players can
assign different combinations of the eight "tossup" states to view all
possible routes to the presidency.
Live Blogging and Analysis:
On Election Night, NPR blogger Mark Memmott will provide quick,
live updates from around the country. Joining Memmott to cover exit
polling and official results of the presidential, gubernatorial and
congressional elections will be NPR correspondents Barbara
Bradley-Hagerty, Carrie Johnson and Liz Halloran.
Reporting in-depth on what the election results mean for the
coming days and years will be Halloran, NPR political blogger Frank
James, reporter Alan Greenblatt, business editor Marilyn Geewax and
media correspondent David Folkenflik.
NPR will also play host to a "newsroom" of about two dozen visiting
bloggers and social media users who plan to cover election night for
their audiences.
NPR's comprehensive 2012 Election Night coverage follows
months of extensive reporting across all NPR programs, at NPR.org and
on mobile. All reporting is aggregated at the
Election 2012 hub:
series like "
Next,"
looking
at the economy, values and demographics to be inherited by
America's next president; and "
Money &
Politics," revealing the extent to which money influences elections
and policy. Earlier this season, NPR reported "
The
Swing State Project," examining the effect of national politics on
swing states, and "
Parallel
Lives," which charted the many surprising similarities between
Obama and Romney.