FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 30, 2008
CONTACT: Bobbie Fisher, Chief Communications Officer, 757.889.9107
WHRV 89.5FM TO OFFER SUPER TUESDAY COVERAGE,
FEBRUARY 5TH, FROM 8PM TIL 1AM
NPR News Special Coverage Hosted by Robert Siegel, Michele Norris, Scott Simon and Andrea Seabrook
With 20 NPR News Correspondents to Report from Around the Country
NORFOLK: DATELINE; January 30, 2008 – Public Radio station WHRV 89.5FM will offer five hours of uninterrupted, comprehensive coverage of the landmark Super Tuesday event – when the largest-ever number of states will conduct primaries or caucuses for the U.S. presidential election – on February 5, from 8PM – 1AM.
Robert Siegel, Michele Norris, Scott Simon and Andrea Seabrook, hosts of NPR’s signature newsmagazines, will anchor from NPR’s worldwide headquarters in Washington, D.C. Joining them from around the country will be NPR reporters and correspondents covering primary and caucus results as well as key issues. Leading the NPR News “Election 2008” team are Don Gonyea, David Greene, Audie Cornish, Ina Jaffe, Scott Horsley and Mara Liasson. Providing analysis will be NPR Washington editors Ron Elving and Ken Rudin, and regular NPR political analysts E.J. Dionne, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and columnist for the Washington Post; New York Times columnist David Brooks; and Andy Kohut, president of the Pew Research Center.
WHRV’s February 6 Morning Edition program will offer additional coverage and analysis of the races.
The recently-released Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the Pew Internet & American Life Project on campaign news and political communication cited NPR and NPR Member stations as the only branded news source to show significant growth in audience influence since the 2000 election. The study noted that fewer Americans turn to local television news, network news and daily newspapers to learn about the campaign than they did in 2000. The Pew study reported that 18 percent of those polled say they regularly learn about the campaign from NPR, up from 12 percent eight years ago. Only the internet in general had more growth, from nine percent to 24 percent.