Update--PBS NewsHour will provide comprehensive,
multi-platform coverage throughout Election Day,
Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012.
Beginning at 8 a.m. online, continuing through the
regular PBS NewsHour broadcast (check local listings)
and until at least midnight, the PBS NewsHour
politics team will provide in-depth reports, extensive analysis and
live results until the winner of the White House is announced and
beyond.
Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff will
co-anchor the evening’s broadcast and will be in the studio with be the
NewsHour’s regular analysts, syndicated columnist Mark Shields
and New York Times columnist David Brooks. Jeffrey
Brown will talk about down-ticket races and national trends
with NewsHour political editor Christina Bellantoni
and Stuart Rothenberg of the Rothenberg Political
Report. Hari Sreenivasan will showcase the
multi-layered NewsHour Digital Map Center while
examining battleground states.
In detail, the NewsHour broadcast will feature:
• Shields and
Brooks- Political columnists and NewsHour standbys David
Brooks and Mark Shields will apply their
particular brand of civil discussion and cutting insight to the
Election Day news cycle.
• Voting Trends- As election
results roll in, Newshour Senior Correspondent Jeffrey Brown,
NewsHour
Political Editor Christina Bellantoni and Stuart
Rothenberg of the Rothenberg Political Report will dissect
results in the House, Senate and gubernatorial elections.
• Digital Map Center- Newshour
Correspondent Hari Sreenivasan
will use the NewsHour’s Digital Map Center and speak with public media
reporters from across the country to help viewers understand the
demographic data in critical battleground states.
• Election Historians- Throughout
the night, election historians Michael Beschloss and Richard
Norton
Smith will be on hand to put the race results in
context.
• Campaign Headquarters- Newshour
Senior Correspondents Ray Suarez and Margaret
Warner will file reports throughout the evening from the
candidates’ campaign headquarters in Chicago and Boston.
• Online, the NewsHour’s Election
Day coverage will start at 8 a.m., with the website
moving to a special Election Day homepage dedicated to campaign news.
Our team will also be posting photos and capturing the day's news in
our many social media streams. Follow along at #pbselection.
Throughout the day, the website
will feature:
• Election
Live Blog- A dynamic live blog pulling in
reports and updates from all over the U.S.
• All Day Livestream- A special NewsHour
livestream
channel filled with analysis all day from NewsHour staff and regular
guests, field reports from polling places, and the best of the
program’s political coverage from the election season.
• Embeddable Map Center- As
election results come in, the NewsHour’s embeddable Digital Map Center
will be continuously updated.
• Comprehensive Live Coverage-
Starting at 6 p.m., the Newshour website will feature multiple
livestream channels, showing the regular NewsHour broadcast and
updating with video of election winners and losers as races are
finalized.
• After Hours- Though the NewsHour
broadcast will wrap at midnight, Hari Sreenivasan and
Christina Bellantoni will continue covering the
late-breaking races via livestream on the NewsHour website.
"Team NewsHour is prepared to offer voters the rich context and
trusted analysis they expect from our program both on-air and online on
Election Day,” said NewsHour Political Editor Christina Bellantoni.
“We'll have members of the staff and our public media partners
reporting from across the country about what they are seeing on the
ground. We also are showcasing our all-year effort to listen to voters
as they decide the direction of their government via our Listen to Me
videos. From Massachusetts to Hawaii, we'll be there for viewers every
step of the way, and won't turn off the livestream until the last race
is called.”
PBS NEWSHOUR is seen by over 5 million weekly
viewers and is also available online, via public radio in select
markets and via podcast. The program is produced in association with
WETA Washington, D.C., and WNET in New
York. Major funding for the PBS NEWSHOUR is provided by the Corporation
for Public Broadcasting and public television viewers. www.pbs.org/newshour
ARLINGTON, VA; October 24, 2012 – In an
effort to educate, engage and inform voters as they head to the polls
November 6, PBS is offering its full complement of PBS Election 2012
programming and news coverage online at PBS.org, including top
election news of the day, video segments, full episodes and online-only
content from PBS NEWSHOUR, FRONTLINE, NEED TO KNOW and
WASHINGTON WEEK WITH GWEN IFILL AND NATIONAL JOURNAL.
“Our
PBS Election 2012 lineup has presented a wealth of information and
insights about the candidates, the issues and the voters,” said PBS
senior vice president and chief TV programming executive John F.
Wilson. “As voters look to election day, PBS.org provides a one-stop
resource for a vast array of election content that is trusted, in-depth
and independent.”
PBS Election 2012 content
available online includes:
• FRONTLINE – Credible, thoughtful reporting combined with powerful narrative, a good story well told: That is at the heart of FRONTLINE’s commitment to its viewers. The program’s webpage is a daily online destination for election coverage, with a dedicated team reporting on news from the campaign trail.
o “THE
CHOICE 2012” –
This highly acclaimed quadrennial special documents the places, people
and decisive moments that made the men competing for the presidency.
Hundreds of hours of research and dozens of original interviews reveal
new details and fresh insights about Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.
(online now)
o “BIG
SKY,
BIG MONEY”
– Correspondent and host of PRI’s “Marketplace” Kai Ryssdal travels to
the remote epicenter of the campaign finance debate for a tale of
money, politics and intrigue. (available online October 30)
o THE
DIGITAL
CAMPAIGN
– A 25-minute web-exclusive featuring NEWSHOUR correspondent Hari
Sreenivasan examines the new strategies campaigns are using to target
hard-to-reach voters online. (online now)
o MICROTARGETING
– A special interactive online feature allows viewers to see how
campaigns might be targeting them. (online now)
o “CLIMATE
OF
DOUBT”
-- Correspondent John Hockenberry explores the dramatic political shift
around climate change. Hockenberry goes inside the organizations that
fight scientists, environmental groups and lawmakers, hoping to shift
the direction of the climate debate and redefine the politics of global
warming. (online now)
• PBS
NEWSHOUR
– The acclaimed news program is engaging a new generation of viewers
with its in-depth, online coverage of the 2012 elections. The
NEWSHOUR’s veteran political correspondents, Gwen Ifill and Judy
Woodruff, produce insightful blogs about the final days of the campaign
to accompany their own field reporting from battleground states.
Correspondent Hari Sreenivasan and political editor Christina
Bellantoni generate lively web-only chats with voters, taking questions
from across the country about the election, its consequences and how
people are making their political decisions this year. The team is also
tracking races up and down the ballot in every battleground state and
enriching its reporting with photos and video, along with the analysis
viewers know and trust. The Vote
2012
Map Center offers 900 different embeddable maps to illustrate
the data driving the election.
o LISTEN TO
ME –
PBS NEWSHOUR showcases the voices of American voters through its
year-long “Listen to Me” project, asking their concerns and top issues
driving them to the polls. (online now)
o ADLIBS –
There is a science to campaign spots, and PBS NEWSHOUR gives voters the
tools to see how their own Facebook profiles could be viewed in a
political context. AdLibs, created by the NEWSHOUR and Mozilla, helps
users create political ads using information they are already sharing
on Facebook. (online now)
o BATTLEGROUND
DISPATCHES –
PBS NEWSHOUR will collaborate with public media partners to report on
the issues at stake in key battleground states, such as the prominent
role women are playing on the ballot in New Hampshire and several
critical congressional races in New York. (online now)
• WASHINGTON
WEEK
WITH GWEN IFILL AND NATIONAL JOURNAL
– Catch up on this show’s insightful discussions with the country’s top
journalists who gather weekly to discuss the hot topics of the week,
the latest on the candidates and what the country’s thinking about the
election. Read “Gwen’s Take,” Gwen Ifill’s personal insights on
the
news and how it’s covered. (online now)
• NEED
TO
KNOW
– Full episodes of its weekly news magazine show are complete with
sharp reporting from across the country, covering political issues from
Main Street’s point of view. Political profiles and reports from the
road include NEED TO KNOW’s unique features American Voices, Fixing
America and more. (online now)
• “AMERICA
BY
THE NUMBERS: CLARKSTON, GEORGIA WITH MARIA HINOJOSA”–
Hinojosa looks at the changing demographics in the United States
through the story of a small Southern town that has seen dramatic
shifts in its population over three decades. (online now)
• ELECTION
2012:
WHAT’S AT STAKE –
This special presents viewers with an up-to-the-minute review of this
year’s top campaign issues and explores how the eventual outcome of the
election could impact those issues and voters’ lives, with pieces
contributed by PBS’ full roster of news and public affairs programs.
Anchored by PBS NEWSHOUR correspondent Hari Sreenivasan, the special
leads viewers through four major issues at the center of this year’s
campaigns: stimulating the economy, entitlements and debt, healthcare,
and foreign policy. (available online November 2)
• MONEY AND
MEDICINE
– This documentary examines the medical, ethical and financial
challenges of containing runaway healthcare spending. In addition to
illuminating the so-called waste and overtreatment that pervade our
medical system, the special explores promising ways to reduce
healthcare expenditures while improving the overall quality of medical
care. (online now)
• RACE 2012
- This provocative conversation about race and politics documents
the
changing face of America and how that change may affect the country’s
political future. (online now)
For more information on PBS
Election 2012, including programming from PBS NEWSHOUR, WASHINGTON
WEEK, FRONTLINE and NEED TO KNOW, visit pbs.org/election2012 and
follow #pbsElection
on Twitter.
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