Reuters signs deal with Facebook to provide election results

Reuters announced Thursday a partnership with Facebook to provide social media users with live U.S. election night results.

Throughout election night, data delivered by Reuters will be shown on Facebook’s Voting information Center and shared in push notifications.

This will include live election results charting real-time outcomes including vote tabulation, exit polls and winner projections from the National Election Pool (NEP), a consortium comprising the four biggest U.S. networks — ABC News, CBS News, CNN and NBC News — and Edison Research.

“This partnership will provide billions of Facebook users with fast, accurate and trusted election day news via Reuters data offering,” said Reuters President Michael Friedenberg in a statement. “Reuters will deliver comprehensive election data via the NEP, providing up-to-the-minute insights and results on one the biggest political events of the year.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.