FSN REPORTERS BLOG - NEWS COVERAGE AND ANALYSIS

Prepping for a major White House event

Those of us in FSN's Washington Bureau are bracing ourselves for another extremely busy week.  On Tuesday night, President Obama makes his State of the Union Address to a joint session of Congress, and FSN will be providing full coverage of this annual set-piece event for our various radio and television clients worldwide. 

Some of our colleagues are heading to Florida, to cover the next primary contest in the Republican Party's battle for the Presidential nomination. 

The rest of us will be focussing on another big event:  on January 30th, we'll be producing a live interview with President Obama from the White House, for our friends at You Tube and Google.  It's going to be a truly ground-breaking event:  President Obama will answer questions submitted by the You Tube audience, but he'll also participate in a Google+ Hangout, talking live to a selection of people across the United States.

We're very excited to have been asked to work on this project, and you can keep monitoring the questions that get submitted here, and watch the live-stream of the event next Monday at 5:30pm ET, 2130 GMT.   Wish us luck!

--Simon Marks, President and Chief Correspondent

 

 

VIDEO: Italy races to prevent Giglio oil spill

Our correspondent Vanessa Mock is in Giglio with FSN videojournalist Sandra Gathmann. You can follow them on twitter here and here respectively.

Vanessa filed this piece on Italy's efforts to prevent an environmental disaster.

 

VIDEO: San Francisco students prepare for Lunar New Year celebrations

FSN California correspondent Rachel Silverman reports from San Francisco.

 

FSN covers a remarkable day in US politics

On the US campaign trail, Thursday was one of those days you just can't make up.  At the very moment Governor Rick Perry was dropping out of the race for the Republican nomination and endorsing Newt Gingrich for the Presidency, ABC News was releasing excerpts of its explosive interview with Mr. Gingrich's ex-wife.

At FSN, we covered every twist-and-turn in the story.  In our Washington Bureau, Priscilla Huff (@phuffdaddy) covered Rick Perry's withdrawal from the race:

FSN's Steve Mort (@mobilemort), on assignment in South Carolina with the PBS NewsHour, filmed then editing the program's exclusive newsmaker interview with Newt Gingrich.

Daniel Wryntjes (@danielryntjes) is now en route to South Carolina to cover Saturday's primary election…but only after he reported ABC's interview with Marianne Gingrich for our radio clients worldwide:

I covered the day's big events in several live-shots for pan-Asian broadcaster Channel News Asia, as well as Radio New Zealand:

And on Thursday night, FSN World News, heard on hundreds of radio stations worldwide, carried full coverage of the explosive confrontation between Newt Gingrich and CNN's John King at the start of the latest GOP debate:

As I said...one of those days you just can't make up.  Now, what on earth will tomorrow bring....?

--Simon Marks, President and Chief Correspondent

VIDEO: Internet 'blackout' over US piracy bills

FSN New York correspondent Nathan King was live from New York to discuss the SOPA and PIPA legislation controversy which has led to several websites, including Wikipedia, blocking access to content.