ABC News and Facebook in Joint Effort to Bring Viewers Closer to Political Coverage

ABC NEWS AND FACEBOOK IN JOINT EFFORT TO BRING VIEWERS CLOSER TO POLITICAL COVERAGE
[SOURCE: New York Times, AUTHOR: Brian Stelter]
Facebook, the popular social networking site, has become a full-fledged platform for communicating, sharing and advertising. ABC News is betting that it will become a platform for political coverage, as well. ABC News and Facebook have formally established a partnership — the site’s first with a news organization — that allows Facebook members to electronically follow ABC reporters, view reports and video and participate in polls and debates, all within a new “U.S. Politics” category. To underscore their collaboration, the two organizations will announce today that they are jointly sponsoring Democratic and Republican presidential debates in New Hampshire on Jan. 5, three days before the primary election there.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/26/technology/26abc.html?ref=todayspaper
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