Grammy Award winning, multiplatinum artist Big Boi of Internationally acclaimed group OutKast Tapped to Host Online Video Show “We the People” Capturing the Voice of Black America…Interactive One, LLC, the digital division of Radio One, Inc. (Nasdaq: ROIAK and ROIA), will offer on-going coverage of the Democratic National Convention featuring unique content, all- access blog reporting and on-site celebrity journalists reporting exclusive to NewsOne.com and BlackPlanet.com. Celebrated rapper and music producer, Big Boi, one half of the multi- platinum Grammy Award winning hip-hop duo OutKast, will anchor a series of webisodes exclusively to NewsOne.com and BlackPlanet.com. See first interviews at http://www.newsone.com/elections . NewsOne will provide more news, commentary, and exclusive content than any other outlet catering to the African-American online community. The content will reside on NewsOne as well as on BlackPlanet, the largest social networking site serving the African-American community with more than 18 million members. NewsOne’s reporters and bloggers will have unprecedented access at the convention and coverage will include up-to-the-minute news with feeds from TV One and Black America Web, expert commentary and analysis, and interviews including TV One’s live Q&A with Michelle Obama. The site will also provide a live interactive forum encouraging users to share their own opinions and insights about the upcoming election. “We are thrilled to capture this historic American moment across our suite of properties and to provide African-Americans the opportunity to join the dialogue and , more importantly, participate in our nation’s political process,” said Smokey D. Fontaine, Chief Content Officer of Interactive One. “Our mission FOR our new content verticals and our recent acquisition of BlackPlanet.com is to super serve the Black community online, and our partnership with Big Boi gives us the opportunity to capture and share our own voices in a unique way.” Big Boi’s webisodes, “We the People,” will be exclusive to NewsOne.com and BlackPlanet.com. Big Boi will conduct sit-down interviews with influential political and media players as well as host “man on the street” interviews to capture the many voices of Black America during this historic period. Confirmed guests include, Professor William Jelani Cobb, song writer and producer Bryan Michael Cox, Atlanta City Councilman Ceasar Mitchell, rapper Yung Joc and Elder Bernice King, the daughter of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “I’m extremely excited to be taking part in the Democratic Convention and supporting the launch of NewsOne.com,” said Big Boi. “I hope to set an example to our young people and convey the message that we all have to make it our business to get involved in this year’s election because this is the time for great changes to be made.”
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Radio One’s Interactive Unit to Offer Exclusive Content Covering the Democratic National Convention on Newsone.Com and Blackplanet.Com
– August 26, 2008Posted in: Radio News
