On Tuesday, Jan. 20, the Web site of The Washington Post will produce live video coverage of Barack Obama’s Presidential Inauguration, anchored by Post reporters, Chris Cillizza, David Maraniss, and Dana Priest.
The Post‘s coverage began as an experiment back in February of 2008 on Super Tuesday and has steadily gained momentum during subsequent iterations at the Democratic and Republican conventions, five primary nights, and on Election Day.
Tuesday’s production, which will begin at 8 a.m. and continue until after the conclusion of the Inaugural parade, will be The Post‘s most extensive and ambitious video coverage yet.
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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.
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.
To date, executives at five other newspapers, including The Australian, the Denver Post, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette have signed on with the Post to syndicate the coverage on their respective Web sites.
On Tuesday, the Post will also be facing competition from a familiar source. Recently executives at The New York Times announced that they too will be producing live coverage of Tuesday’s events on www.nytimes.com.
