Citizen journalism organization TheUpTake.org covered the very exclusive press conference today, in which President Barack Obama spoke on behalf of the earthquake-shaken Haiti.

For the past week, Haiti has been dealing with copious amounts of destruction, homelessness, and hunger as a result of the earthquakes – contributing to further financial hardships for the poverty-ridden country.

In the press conference, President Obama affirmed, “Haiti will have the full support of the United States,” which will include emergency medical relief services, and the transportation of water, food, and many other basic amenities. The President also urged Americans and the entire world to contribute to the Haitian victims at Whitehouse.gov.

TheUpTake.org will continue to show the replay of the press conference at http://www.livestream.com/theuptake.

Watch the replay of President Obama’s press conference:

The Clinton Global Initiative has chosen Livestream to broadcast the CGI 2009 annual meeting in New York City Tuesday 22 September to Friday 25 September. 

Over 60 current and former heads of state have been confirmed to attend the meeting, including President Barack Obama who will be addressing the opening session Tuesday night. Founded in 2005 by former President Bill Clinton, CGI brings together government representatives, political leaders, non-government organizations, and philanthropists to create tangible plans for solving problems around the world.

CGI will be offering 4 camera live coverage of the event using Livestream’s custom grid which will allow viewers to switch between ongoing sessions as they are broadcast live. The player also incorporates a Twitter integrated chat feature allowing users to submit questions and tweet without leaving the viewing page.

In addition to the customized Livestream grid, CGI will also use the recently launched Facebook integrated player.

Here below is a screenshot of the customized 4 channel player with integrated social networking tools.

Tune in from tomorrow on at www.livestream.com/cgi_plenary
to watch the Annual Meeting live from NYC.

This afternoon Livestream was host to several feeds of Barack Obama’s latest town hall meeting, where the President defended his Health Insurance policy in Portsmouth, N.H.

Two New England news outlets, WCSH and NECN picked up the stream and broadcast the entire event live on their Livestream channels www.livestream.com/news_center and www.livestream.com/necn_live, making it available to their online communities.

President Obama’s appointee to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor is facing the Senate this week for her approval hearings.

C-SPAN is offering a 4 camera live coverage from the court room allowing each user switch pick their angle. The multi-channel player with refreshing live thumbnails of the streams was developed in 2 days using the power of the soon to be launched Livestream API.

C-SPAN has previously used Livestream to cover the 2009 US elections, broadcasting debates and election-related events through the “C-SPAN Debate Cam“. They also provided one of the most in-depth online coverages of Inauguration Day, as President Obama was taking his oath of office.
See our previous blog posts for more information on these past webcasts:
http://www.livestream.com/blog/?p=925
http://www.livestream.com/blog/?p=930
http://www.livestream.com/blog/?p=677

The Sotomayor Hearings are also being broadcast on Livestream by USA TODAY , as well as citizen journalism websites Mother Jones and The Uptake.

3000 viewers watched the Press Conference by President Obama, live from White-House, last night on the Mogulus channel KPNX.

The player was embedded on USA Today’s blog The Oval and on the Daily News Journal‘s homepage.

Ealier today, The Indianapolis Star broadcast President Obama’s appearance in Elkhart, Indiana, as he addressed the economy and talked about the planned federal stimulus package.

To watch the recording, click here or click play below.

USA TODAY, Democracy Now, The Real News and CSPAN’s Inauguration Hub powered by Mogulus, and many others broadcast today’s historic event providing online viewers with wide and unprecedented web coverage.

More than 1 million viewers tuned into Mogulus.com and into the channels’ embedded players as President Obama was sworn as 44th President of the United States. The Mogulus audience record was broken with 105,000 concurrent viewers on the network today.

Over 20 channels streamed throughout the day (see grid picture below!), showing the inauguration, the luncheon, the parade, and featuring commentaries from editors and guests.

Here are some screenshots from today’s broadcasts.

Is it a classic case of forgive and forget? This week Obama called on gay Episcopal bishop, Gene Robinson, to deliver the invocation at the ceremonial kick-off to Inauguration Week at the Lincoln Memorial.

Has this addition to the inaugural lineup offset Obama’s pick of evangelical celebrity Rick Warren, outspoken opponent of gay marriage and a woman’s right to choose, chosen to deliver the invocation at the 56th President’s swearing in ceremony?

To talk about whether Obama has fixed his Rick Warren problem are Jane Hamsher, Faye Wattleton, Kenyon Farrow, and Eleanor Smeal.

Hosted by Laura Flanders.

Live today at 12pm EST on mogulus.com/lauraflanders

Major news networks have broadcast tonight the 2008 US Presidential Election with Mogulus. Established publications, TV Networks, and other top news sources have provided viewers with premium election coverage, some for more than 10 hours today.

This has been a historic event, and a premiere for many news institutions which have recently integrated online broadcasting to their editorial/coverage strategy. Mogulus has reached unprecedented diversity of broadcasts covering the same event, with an simultaneous audience peaking at 87,178, and we’re proud to have been the first choice for these professional journalists and reporters.

Here are some screenshots from a few of our channels.