'Live From the Newsroom' partners with Widener, talks politics

Our weekly live-stream Internet show, 'Live From the Newsroom,' has a new home - at least one week every month.

We were on the campus of Widener University in Chester last night to kick off a new partnership with the Communications Department at the school.

Once every month, we'll take our 'Live From the Newsroom' show to the Widener campus. We got a close-up view of their sparkling new TV studio in Freedom Hall.

If you missed the show, you can catch the replay here. Notice the increased production values we got from using their set.

There are a lot of people to thank, starting with Tim Scepansky, who provided a lot of technical expertise to get the show off the ground.

One of the best things about this arrangement - aside from being a great setting for the show - is that we get to utilize the talents of Widener Communications students. They ran the cameras and the sound production. We had several political science students on with us to offer their opinions on President Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday night.

Special thanks to Dwight DeWerth-Pallmeyer, head of the Widener Communications Department, who joined us at the start of the show to tell us about their new home in Freedom Hall, as well as the growing department, which is now training students in all phases of communications.

Finally, political science professor Wes Leckrone once again joined me and columnist Chris Freind as we talked about the State of the Union, as well as the State of Pennsylvania, and Gov. Tom Corbett's re-election chances.

I could not be happier with our new partnership with Widener, even if it does mean a whole lot better picture of this ugly mug all over the Internet. Not even the whiz kids at Widener can improve this visage.

If you have an idea for a 'Live From the Newsroom' show, or would like to form a partnership with us, don't be a stranger. I'd much rather come out to visit your site than be sitting here in the office.

We're looking for new material and shows all the time.

If you'd like a visit from the editor of the Daily Times and DelcoTimes.com, and our 'Live From the Newsroom' show, shoot me an email at editor@delcotimes.com and we'll see if we can add you to our planned shows. •

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