PBS NewsHour Launches New Politics Page

PBS NEWSHOUR POLITICS, to Provide One-Stop Shop for the Best of NewsHour’s Political Reporting and Analysis

 PBS NewsHour announces the launch of “PBS NewsHour Politics” (www.pbs.org/newshour/politics) a one-stop web destination for national political news.  The site goes live Wednesday, September 9, just in time for the 2010 midterm election season, and features the considerable talents of the PBS NewsHour political team: senior correspondents Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff; political analysts David Brooks and Mark Shields; and PBS NewsHour political editor and analyst David Chalian, among others.

The new page offers users timely and insightful reporting, video and analysis on daily political developments in Washington and around the country, all with the depth and intelligence NewsHour viewers have come to expect.  Key features include:

• Thedaily “Morning Line” blog, written by David Chalian and the NewsHour politics team, offering the latest recap of political news and pointers on expected daily developments. Sign up for the “Morning Line” e-mail and get it delivered to your inbox every morning.
• Theweekly “Political Checklist,”a web-only video feature with David Chalian, Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff, appearing every Monday, in which they discuss the major political news of the week
• Web-only interviews with the newsmakers most closely involved in plotting their party’s midterm election strategies, such as a recent interview with Maryland Congressman Chris Van Hollen, who currently chairs the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (http://to.pbs.org/d5e6KX)
• An interactive calendarfor tracking key political events in Washington and beyond. Follow President Obama’s midterm campaign schedule and the Republicans already traveling to Iowa and New Hampshire with their sights on taking his job.
• The analysis of Shields and Brooks, including both their video segments from the PBS NewsHour television broadcasts and their Web-only video chats with NewsHour correspondent Hari Sreenivasan
• Thetop 25 political twitter feeds to follow. We’ve made it easy for you to scroll through the best of the twitterverse so you will have all the latest developments at your fingertips.
• Maps, data and analysis from our partners at Patchwork Nation, a collaboration with the Christian Science Monitor, WYNC, Politico and others that explores developments in the United States through the lens of 12 community types based on demographic characteristics such as income level, racial composition, employment and religion.

PBS NEWSHOUR is seen five nights a week on more than 315 PBS stations across the country and is also available online, via public radio in select markets and via podcast. The program is produced by MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, in association with WETA Washington, DC, and THIRTEEN in New York. Major corporate funding for The NewsHour is provided by Chevron, Bank of America, BNSF Railways and Intel, with additional support from the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and public television viewers.