New Webcast Series: ‘Meet the Bloggers’

LOS ANGELES - This Friday, news junkies will find the media landscape a little more crowded and a lot more interactive than it is today. The premiere episode of ‘Meet the Bloggers’ will introduce the world to the first regularly-scheduled, high production-value, internet-only live broadcast devoted to news analysis and opinion from the blogosphere.

Website with trailer: http://meetthebloggers.org/

Tech demo: http://tinyurl.com/6ljpml

Dress rehearsal segment: http://tinyurl.com/6725bj

Meet the Bloggers will premiere live and worldwide at 1pm ET on July 18th at the national blogger convention ‘Netroots Nation’ and at meetthebloggers.org. Confirmed guests for early episodes include:

* Senator Harry Reid
* Arianna Huffington
* John Cusack
* Andy Stern
* Rachel Maddow
* Michael Moore
* Senator Bernie Sanders
* Oliver Stone

‘Meet the Bloggers’ is the next iteration of online video issue advocacy from Brave New Foundation. Brave New Foundation was responsible for education and outreach on the issue advocacy documentaries “Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers” and “Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price.” Our organizations have mastered the YouTube viral video medium — the videos produced by Brave New Foundation and Brave New Films have together garnered over 23 million views, causing numerous headaches and worse for the targets of their online campaigns. Now Brave New Foundation is on the cusp of launching an entirely new way to discuss the issues: weekly, high quality webcast programs that look every bit as professional as cable news but with an independent, progressive, non-corporate point of view.

Each Friday, Meet the Bloggers will introduce viewers to personalities from the progressive blogosphere. The show will be hosted by Cenk Uygur from The Young Turks, and the format will feature a guest of the week, issue of the week and a video of the week, interspersed with round-table discussion from bloggers based all around the country. Regular and semi-regular blogger participants will include:

* Matt Stoller, Open Left
* Nico Pitney, The Huffington Post
* Liliana Segura, Alternet
* Faiz Shakir, Think Progress
* Roberto Lovato, Of America
* David Waldman, Daily Kos
* Christina Siun O’Connell, Firedoglake
* Pam Spaulding, Pam’s House Blend
* Micah Sifry, Tech President
* Christy Hardin Smith, Firedoglake
* Baratunde Thurston, Jack & Jill Politics
* David Sirota, Credo Action
* Todd Beeton, MyDD
* and others.

Going beyond the technological capacity of call-in television talk shows, viewers will be able to interact with guests on Meet the Bloggers by sending in questions through their web cams and watching a live video feed of themselves and the guest in conversation. Viewers will also be able to interact with one another through a live blogging feature on meetthebloggers.org.

The goal of Meet The Bloggers is to raise the volume of substantive, progressive news analysis within the broad public conversation on important issues facing the country and the world, a task that the mainstream media has been unable or unwilling to perform.

Meet The Bloggers will showcase:

* Substantive, smart, unconventional news opinion and analysis
* Professionally-trained on-air talent
* High-caliber interview guests
* Syndication on major blogs and online news sites like Huffington Post, Alternet and Think Progress
* Live video interactivity by viewers

Meetthebloggers.org will feature:

* Live broadcast every Friday
* Past episodes on demand
* Live blogging interactivity during webcasts
* Announcement of upcoming guests

Contact:

Leighton Woodhouse
Communications Director, Brave New Foundation
Cell: (310) 904-8651
Office: (310) 204-4360
lwoodhouse@bravnewfoundation.org

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