PRESS RELEASE from
CNN
March 2, 2012
CNN Anchors,
Correspondents out in Full Force on Super
Tuesday
Live
Election
Roundtable on CNN.com
Kicks Off Coverage; Virtual Convention Floor Makes its Debut
As
the proven destination for politics across all platforms, CNN plans
extensive
coverage of the Super Tuesday caucus and primary contests on March 6.
Anchors
Wolf Blitzer,
Anderson Cooper,
Erin Burnett,
John King and
Candy Crowley will headline the
network’s America’s Choice 2012:
Super Tuesday special programming from the CNN Election
Center beginning at 7
p.m. ET.
Gloria Borger and
David Gergen, along with CNN
political
contributors
Donna Brazile,
Ari Fleischer,
Hilary Rosen,
Erick Erickson,
Paul Begala and
Alex Castellanos, will join the
coverage to
provide analysis and insight. Beginning at 1 a.m. on March 7, the
network will
air a live special edition of Anderson Cooper 360º.
“CNN
will deploy more resources in the field to cover Super Tuesday than any
other
television network,” said Sam Feist, CNN Washington bureau chief and
senior vice president. “These contests will play a pivotal role in
determining the direction of the rest of this campaign.”
CNN
Election Roundtable
On
CNN.com,
viewers can join Wolf Blitzer, Gloria Borger, Jessica Yellin, Ari
Fleischer and
Donna Brazile to get an insider’s take on the 2012 presidential
election.
Users may register at
CNN.com/roundtable
for a 12 p.m. live
virtual roundtable on Super Tuesday powered by
Cisco's
WebEx. The panel of political experts will address election centric
questions from registered participants and
CNN
iReporters.
Technology
and Social Media
Correspondent
Tom Foreman will take viewers
inside CNN’s new “virtual convention floor” on Tuesday
evening. The virtual representation of the floor at the Republican
National
Convention will look ahead to the GOP gathering in Tampa less than six
months from Super Tuesday
to evaluate what is at stake in the race and provide visual delegate
updates as
they develop.
Anchor
and chief national correspondent John King will utilize the “Magic
Wall” to break down the Super Tuesday battlegrounds and analyze exit
polling data.
To
engage and comment on election news as it happens, users can view
the
CNN
Politics Facebook page for
political stories and photos of CNN’s favorite faces. On Twitter, users
may follow
@CNNPolitics
for breaking developments and join the conversation by using hashtag
#CNNElections.
CNN anchor
Brooke Baldwin will
report live from the CNN
Election Center
on trends and conversation across social media.
CNN Anchor
and Correspondent Deployments
CNN
anchors and correspondents listed below will fan out from Alaska
to Massachusetts
and points in between for on-the-ground coverage of key states and
races.
Candy Crowley, anchor and chief
political
correspondent
Mitt
Romney headquarters, Massachusetts
Jim Acosta, national political
correspondent
Rick
Santorum
headquarters, Ohio
Joe Johns, senior
correspondent
Newt
Gingrich
headquarters, Georgia
Shannon Travis, political
reporter
Ron
Paul
headquarters, Idaho
Jessica Yellin, chief White
House
correspondent
The
White
House, Washington, D.C.
Ali Velshi, anchor and chief business
correspondent
Oklahoma
City voting
location
Dana Bash, senior congressional
correspondent
Ohio
voting location
Paul Steinhauser, political
editor
Ohio
voting location
Mark Preston, political
director
CNN
Election
Center
Peter Hamby, political
reporter-at-large
Nashville,
Tennessee
voting location
David Mattingly, national
correspondent
Georgia
voting
location
Jim Spellman, all platform
journalist
North
Dakota caucus site
Paul Vercammen,
producer/reporter
Anchorage,
Alaska
caucus site
Shawna Shepherd, campaign embed
producer
Newt
Gingrich
headquarters, Georgia
Rachel Streitfeld, campaign
embed
producer
Mitt
Romney
headquarters, Massachusetts
Lisa Desjardins, CNN Radio
Capitol Hill
correspondent
Washington,
D.C.
Bob Costantini, CNN Radio
Washington
correspondent
Columbus,
Ohio
Edgar Treiguts, CNN Radio
correspondent
Newt
Gingrich
headquarters, Georgia
Steve Kastenbaum, CNN Radio
correspondent
Mitt
Romney
headquarters, Massachusetts
Adriana Hauser, CNN en
Español
correspondent
Mitt
Romney
headquarters, Massachusetts
Ione Molinares, CNN en
Español
correspondent
Rick
Santorum
headquarters, Ohio
Gustavo Valdes, CNN en
Español all platform
journalist
Newt
Gingrich
headquarters, Georgia
Tory Dunnan, CNN Newsource
“RunningMate”
correspondent
Columbus,
Ohio
René Marsh, CNN
Newsource national
correspondent
Cobb
County
voting location
CNN Digital
The CNN Election
Center will provide
extensive coverage of the Super Tuesday states and will include live
blogs and
real-time results coverage.
CNN.com will live
stream Super Tuesday coverage online, on CNN’s
mobile website and
across
CNN's
mobile apps. Users can visit the CNNPolitics.com,
the online destination 2012 election-related news and analysis. Other
online
features include: GOP
Delegate
Calculator,
CNN Electoral Map,
2012
Primary
Caucus
Calendar and an updated CNN
Polling Center debuting Tuesday.
CNN en
Español and CNN International
CNN en Español will offer
extensive
coverage of the Super Tuesday races, with anchors Juan Carlos
López and Carlos
Montero from Atlanta.
Lopez and Montero will be joined by a panel of the network’s political
contributors: Democratic strategist María
Cardona, The George Washington University’s Roberto Izurieta and
Republican strategist Juan Hernández. Programming will begin at
7
p.m. and will include guests and correspondents from Massachusetts,
Ohio and Georgia.
CNN
International will simulcast the domestic network’s Super Tuesday
coverage beginning at 7 p.m.
CNN Radio
CNN
Radio will provide comprehensive Super Tuesday coverage for its
affiliates and
digital distribution partners with correspondents and producers spread
out
though Georgia, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, Massachusetts,
and Washington, D.C.
CNN Worldwide, a division of
Turner Broadcasting System,
Inc., a Time Warner Company, is the most trusted source for news and
information. Its reach extends to nine cable and satellite television
networks;
one private place-based network; two radio networks; wireless devices
around
the world; CNN Digital Network, the No. 1 network of news Web sites in
the
United States; CNN Newsource, the world’s most extensively syndicated
news service; and strategic international partnerships within
both television and the digital media.
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