Wednesday, October 01, 2008

Digital Journal Covering Debates Live, Giving All Bloggers Free Syndicated Coverage

For those that do not have the time, or even some that do not have the inclination to live blog tomorrow night's VP debate, Digital Journal will be doing so and is offering the embed codes for individual bloggers to have their live event embedded into their own blogs.

From the DJ announcement:

Digital Journal – If you're interested in politics, DigitalJournal.com will be the place to be on Thursday night, as we're covering both the U.S. vice presidential debate and the Canadian federal leaders debate live. Coverage will include play-by-play action, analysis, insight and opinion, as well as live polls and photography, and interaction with readers around the world. Anyone can take part in the debate coverage, and we hope all of you will join us.

But in addition to coverage on DigitalJournal.com, we're happy to announce a service for bloggers and citizen journalists outside the site as well. For both debates, DigitalJournal.com is now giving away the embed codes for our live blog coverage, allowing you to embed full, as-it-happens coverage on your own personal blog or even through Facebook.

If you're a blogger or citizen journalist who doesn't have the resources or time to live blog the event on your own, you can embed our widget and get up-to-the-second coverage for your blog's audience. The event will be live blogged by DigitalJournal.com staff, as well as citizen journalists. And all coverage is going to be fair and balanced, offering both comments and criticisms of all candidates.

Furthermore, if you embed our live blog widget on your page, the coverage will be entirely interactive. Readers will be able to submit comments and vote on polls right on your site. You get in-depth coverage, reader engagement and interactivity at no cost and no effort. We got great feedback on the U.S. presidential debate coverage last week, and so we thought this coverage could be extended to everyone as a service. Just because you might not have time to blog about the debates doesn't mean you have to miss out on having coverage.


Read the rest and grab the embed codes over at the original article. Place the embed codes in your blog today or tomorrow and your readers will have live coverage whether you are online or not.

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