CNN International Mobilizes Team for ‘Election Night in America’

Two Dozen Reporters Deployed; First-Ever Election Night Broadcast from CNN’s State-of-the-Art Studio in Washington.

CNN International will kick off its special coverage of the U.S. presidential election at 12pm WAT. Tuesday from CNN’s world headquarters in Atlanta. Led by CNN’s Richard Quest, Hala Gorani, Isha Sesay and Jonathan Mann, CNNI will showcase the expertise of CNN correspondents across the U.S. and around the world, offering up-to-the-minute reaction from U.S. voters.

At 3pm WAT, CNNI will broadcast a special business-centered program featuring Quest and CNN’s chief business correspondent Ali Velshi, who will look at early reaction to the election from the world’s leading financial markets. And at 9p.m WAT, CNN’s chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour will anchor a live U.S. election-edition of Amanpour. Following the broadcast of Amanpour, CNNI will join CNN/U.S. and continue simulcasting until 12pm WAT. Wednesday.

CNN Times Square Viewing Party

As on Election Day in 2008, CNN will again host a viewing party at the corner of 47th Street and Broadway in New York City. The event will be open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis to view the network’s election coverage.

CNN Programming Schedule

•    Sunday, November 4
o    A special election edition of State of the Union with Candy Crowley airs live from 3pm WAT.
o    America’s Choice 2012: Countdown to Election Day lead by Wolf Blitzer, Anderson Cooper, Candy Crowley and John King airs live from 2am WAT.
o    Piers Morgan Tonight airs live from 3am WAT.

•    Monday, November 5
o    Early Start with John Berman and Zoraida Sambolin and Starting Point with Soledad O’Brien air live from 11am WAT and 1pm WAT, respectively, from Washington.
o    The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer airs live from 10pm WAT.
o    Erin Burnett OutFront airs live from Columbus, Ohio, from 1am WAT.
o    Anderson Cooper 360° airs live from 2am WAT and 4am  WAT from Washington.
o    Erin Burnett OutFront airs live from Columbus, Ohio, from 5am WAT.
o    Piers Morgan Tonight airs live from 3am and midnight to 1 a.m. from New York.

•    Tuesday, November 6: ELECTION DAY
o    Early Start with John Berman and Zoraida Sambolin and Starting Point with Soledad O’Brien air live from Washington from 11am WAT and 1pm WAT, respectively.
o    Election Day in America editions of CNN Newsroom will provide live coverage from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. with updates from CNN’s correspondents in the final battleground states.
o    A special one-hour Election Day in America edition of Erin Burnett OutFront airs live at 8pm WAT. from Columbus, Ohio.
o    A special one-hour Election Day in America edition of Anderson Cooper 360° airs live at 9pm WAT. from Washington.
o    A special Election Day in America edition of The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer airs live beginning at 4 p.m.
o    ELECTION NIGHT IN AMERICA full team coverage begins at 12am WAT. and continues through night and early morning to 9am WAT.

•    Wednesday, November 7
o    America’s Choice 2012 coverage will begin at 9am WAT. with Early Start anchors John Berman and Zoraida Sambolin and Starting Point anchor Soledad O’Brien. Sambolin will be live from Chicago, Berman and O’Brien are live from Washington.
o    At 3pm WAT. America’s Choice 2012 continues with Kate Bolduan and Joe Johns from Washington.
o    At noon, post-election day editions of CNN Newsroom continue with anchors Wolf Blitzer, Suzanne Malveaux, John King and Brooke Baldwin from Washington and Atlanta.
o    Post-Election Day editions of The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, Erin Burnett OutFront, Anderson Cooper 360°, and Piers Morgan Tonight will air live at their regularly scheduled times.

CNN on Social Media

Furthering CNN’s election partnership with Facebook, users who have pledged to participate via CNN’s “I’m Voting” app will be able to take part in various election-related surveys powered directly on their computer, tablet or mobile device. Also, CNN.com will feature an interactive dashboard that provides real-time data about who on Facebook is talking about the candidates. Facebook will also provide exclusive insights to CNN on trending election-related keywords. The social networking site will also provide international data on which countries are buzzing most about the candidates. All data and results will be integrated in CNN’s cross platform programming on Election Day.

On social media, CNN viewers are encouraged to visit CNNPolitics on Facebook, follow @CNNPolitics on Twitter and use the hashtag #CNNElections for the latest news and up to the minute updates about the election. GetGlue users can check-in to CNN’s ‘Election Night in America’ coverage for two exclusive limited-edition stickers. Users are also invited to go behind-the-scenes with CNN’s reporters, by viewing photo highlights from CNN Politics on Instagram. Users may also subscribe to CNN’s political teams for all of their latest updates across social media on Facebook and Twitter.

Additionally, CNN is taking big stories and election related data and packaging them up in small snapshots created exclusively for Tumblr. The newly created Tumblr page, The CNN Brief  includes shareable infographics (poll numbers, ad spending, historical facts) and visually displaying these data slices as animated GIFS and visual images.

CNN Digital

CNN Digital will have a robust and multiplatform experience with the latest results and analysis for the 2012 Election.  The CNN.com Home Page will display top election news, interactive data, social integrations and real-time updates about the races.  The latest results, polling (including exit polls for battleground states), live-blogging, candidate profiles and round-the-clock coverage will be available through CNN’s Election Center and via the CNN apps for iOS, Android and Windows Phone and optimized for all users of CNN’s mobile website.

CNN Digital will live stream from the campaign headquarters in Boston and Chicago as well as all acceptance and concession speeches from key races, giving users a front-row seat through CNN’s mobile apps and atwww.CNN.com/live.  Users may also authenticate through their cable, satellite or telco providers to access CNN and HLN’s 24-7 television feeds via TV Everywhere.

CNN’s Electoral Map and Calculator will identify battleground states and help users game out the presidential contest. Through Google and CNN’s Campaign Explorer, users can track ad spending, fundraising and travel in the presidential race.  The Poll of Polls interactive will display poll results over time for the national horserace and in key battleground states.  Finally, Facebook-CNN Election Insights will display dynamic, real-time charts and visualizations of Facebook activity on Election Night, which CNN will report throughout the evening.

CNN iReport, the network’s global participatory news community, will invite voters across the country to be part of CNN’s election coverage by taking and sharing photos wearing their “I Voted” stickers.  Users can join in through iReport or by using #IVotedCNN on Twitter and Instagram.  After the election, CNN will also invite iReporters to share their reactions following the results.

On Election Day, in addition to CNN’s daily political newsletter Gut Check, CNN’s live blog at CNN.com/Conversation will provide instant reaction and analysis from CNN’s anchors, reporters and more from influencers around social media. The companion to CNN’s TV coverage will also provide extra information, trivia, instant polls and viewer comments/questions.