Monday, November 26, 2007

ABC News Teams with Facebook for Politics Section; ABC News-Facebook Presidential Debates Coming

In Facebook’s first formal partnership with a news organization, ABC News is helping power Facebook’s politics section, complete with surveys, discussions, polling and video. ABC News’ political reporters are also on Facebook. “There are debates going on at all times within Facebook,” David Westin, the president of ABC News and a new Facebook member, said in an interview. “This allows us to participate in those debates, both by providing information and by learning from the users.” Note that ABC News’ section is different than Facebook’s new product pages, which many media companies are setting up. First, we had CNN and YouTube partner together for a set of debates where the questions came in the form of YouTube videos. And now ABC News is hitching its debate wagon to Facebook for the New Hampshire debates on January 5.
http://www.lostremote.com/2007/11/25/abc-news-teams-with-facebook/

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/26/the-abc-news-facebook-presidential-debates/

http://www.facebook.com/politics/?us

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