The Washington Post’s web site will produce live video coverage of President-elect Barack Obama’s Inaugural events on January 20th anchored by The Post’s Chris Cillizza, David Maraniss and Dana Priest.
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.
A discussion forum below the video player will let users ask questions and interact with the hosts. In addition, users have opportunities to share their perspectives on the Inauguration in a special, user-generated video feature. Users can submit videos using the web application Seesmic.
The live video will be available beginning at 8 am ET on January 20th and will conclude after the Inaugural parade.
Originally posted on January 13, 2009 @ 12:11 pm