Andrew Golis

Business Week’s “Where to Get Live Election Night Coverage Online“:

If you’re looking for election night coverage by and for people like you, there are plenty of sites to turn to. The left-leaning blog Talking Points Memo, for instance, has really thrived this election season, raking in a record 16.3 million YouTube video views in September.

For its election night coverage, the site will be live-streaming (most likely using the cell phone-based service Qik from Obama’s Chicago headquarters) and providing live election results via a map created in partnership with Google (GOOG). It will also be live-blogging and posting TV news clips it records off network TV. 

The Wall Street Journal’s “Politics Sites Prep For Game Day“:

Talking Points Memo, in conjunction with Google, is updating an interactive results map while two editors shoot video in Chicago. “What we’re really trying to do is to present full-service news coverage of Election Night and not just commentary and isolated reporting, which is what some people might expect from an outfit that started as a blog,” says TPM editor Josh Marshall.

The Times Online’s ”The Top 25 websites for US election obsessives“:

7: Talking Points Memo Talking Points Memo will be livestreaming from Obama’s headquarters and posting results with a map created with its partner Google.

I did an interview yesterday w/ a media reporter for the BBC.  She’s got a piece up today about what new media outlets are doing for election day.

Looks like she turned her notes into one big quote from me, but I’m not complaining:

The High Profile Political Bloggers

Andrew Gollis of Talking Point Memo

Andrew Gollis is the deputy editor of Talking Points Memo, a well known political network of blogs produced by practised journalists and reporters. 

 We’ve been covering the lead up to this event for 22 months now.  

We started using the live streaming video site Qik as part of our coverage of the Republican and Democratic party conventions.

We had people on the floor of the conventions there sending video back live.

For election night we are in Chicago with the Obama campaign. A mix of people will be recording interviews and crowd reactions there.

We’ll have crowd responses and about a dozen updates from mid-afternoon on Tuesday and then all the way through the night depending on how things go.

We’ll be posting these video reports into the main TPM blog. There’s no real production, it’s all pretty live and the Qik stuff can be a bit rough but it’s adding value.

TPM is not citizen journalism. It’s trained reporters and journalists using new media tools.

As a network of established political blogs that has around three million readers, we hope that our readers find the video content is something that keeps them interested. 

You can see on the homepage of TPM right now a big Google map with a TPM header on it.  Tomorrow at 6, it will start streaming election results at you.  You can follow the presidential race, the senate races and the house races at the national, state, or local level.  That’s right, you can watch elections results stream into your favorite swing state county by county.  This is why someone on an email list I’m on today said “Andrew Golis is the Stringer Bell for political junkies.”  I GOT THAT WMD! (Go watch The Wire and be ashamed of yourself if you don’t get the reference.

I explain the map on a TPM vid today:

You can see the map at TPM. It looks like this:

Update: Good LORD!  Can’t keep up w/ NBC.  They’re going to imprint a map on the Rockefeller Center skating rink.  Show offs.

He reports 23 million pageviews from 14 million visits.  Pretty awesome for a guy with an assistant and a few interns.  

He deserves it.  Sullivan is consistently the freshest, more entertaining blogger in the country.  He and his team find a lot of fun stuff, and, as is evident in his piece on blogging in last month’s Atlantic, he’s truly mastered the medium.

Congrats to him and the good folks over at The Atlantic.

Amazing:

Love it.

From the new GenerationWE:

Not really surprising that this guy looks like he’ll be the first candidate elected by we kids:

Chris Hayes:

One thing occurred to me: The Right’s attacks on Obama over the last year have been like a tour of the Greatest Hits of the Culture War in roughly reverse chronological order. First there were the rumors of him being a secret radical Muslim, which is, of course, the most au courant culture-war wedge. Then, when that didn’t work they went with the Hollywood celebrity angle, which has a long pedigree, but also figured prominently in 2004. After that they went with the “sex education”angle, which, in the 1980s and 1990s particularly was a hardy perennial (even in liberal New York where I grew up). Next they turned the clock back even further to the 1960s, in belaboring the Bill Ayers/Weather Underground connection, and now they’re all the way back in the Cold War with accusations of socialism! I’m trying to predict what’s next. Obama supports the free coinage of silver? Obama was soft on Spanish atrocities in Cuba? Obama is a secret Jacobin sympathizer?

If nothing else, I think this election is useful for high school history teachers who want to give their students a condensed, synthesized look at the right-wing attack politics.

From Howard Kurtz this morning:

Nicolle Wallace, a senior McCain adviser, says that when she was at the Bush White House she “admired” Brown’s approach but now believes the anchor is one-sided. “I find her work at CNN a stunning departure from journalism in the tradition of tough, smart women like Andrea Mitchell, Diane Sawyer and Katie Couric, to something that looks and feels a lot more like commentary in the mold of Keith Olbermann,” Wallace says.

Brown says the campaign has not offered specifics to back up its complaints about her supposed bias. “That as a journalist I dared to ask them to explain what Governor Palin’s foreign policy credentials were? That I dared to ask the campaign to give journalists basic access to their vice presidential candidate? This is why they are lashing out? Give me a break.”

Hear hear.

Update: New people coming to the site for the first time from Duncan’s place should read my first post on Campbell Brown arguing that she’s building a new model of engaged journalism that The New York Times could learn from.