NEWS COVERAGE OPTIONS

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Broadcasting students and faculty plan to provide “wall to wall” live coverage of the five evenings. This live coverage will be available to all Macomb cable subscribers, including campus residents, by tuning to Channel 3 during the live events (see the schedule nights and times in the left column of this blog). In addition, the WIU student newscast, “wiutv3,” which airs at 1 p.m. weekdays (with a replay at 4:30 p.m.), will contain coverage of the project.

Journalism students and faculty coaches plan to provide prompt written coverage of the mock presidential election.
* First, a companion site to this one will present real-time OBSERVATIONS and COMMENTARY throughout the MPE's five evening events.
* Second, more complete (and objective) content will be posted to this News-meister weblog (“blog”).
* Third, we’ll combine many of those same stories with news photographs and create a printed News-meister newspaper that will be produced four times in three weeks. It will be distributed on campus Oct. 25, Nov. 1, and Nov. 5, followed by a larger wrapup/roundup issue that will be available on Wednesday, Nov. 7.
* Fourth, after the first week, Journalism will provide coverage online by posting PDFs of newspaper pages on a “mock election coverage” page on the English & Journalism website, and we'll do the same thing after "Election Day" with the contents of the final, wrapup/roundup issue.

And, of course, the Western Courier, WIU's student-run newspaper, will be covering the mock presidential election. The Courier is published Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and its website is http://www.westerncourier.com.