'CQ RollCall,' 'Cleveland Plain Dealer,' Cleveland.com Team For RNC Coverage

CQ Roll Call, cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer will collaborate on joint coverage of the Republican National Convention, which takes place July 18-21 in Cleveland, Ohio.

Roll Call will combine its access to Congressional leaders with cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer’s local, on-the-ground reporting.

According to a statement, “the combined effort will provide the latest news on the nominating process, the roles played by members of Congress, security issues, and updates on down-ballot races.”

The Plain Dealer and cleveland.com will contribute Cleveland-based analysis to CQ Roll Call’s convention guide, which will be distributed to the 25,000 hotel rooms of convention delegates and media.

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Cleveland.com and Plain Dealer readers will also have access to Roll Call’s news and analysis from its key political writers, like Walter Shapiro, Patricia Murphy, Jonathan Allen and David Hawkings.

Roll Call content will appear in the Plain Dealer’s print edition, on Cleveland.com and on RollCall.com.

A daily politics newsletter published by cleveland.com, called Battleground Briefing, will include links to Roll Call content each day of the convention as well.

“We’ll have an army of reporters on the ground that week, and Roll Call’s expertise and access to news makers will be a huge boost to the coverage we plan,” stated Chris Quinn, vice president of content at cleveland.com

The partnership provides an “opportunity to take Roll Call’s content to a much wider audience by working with first-class partners like cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer,” according to CQ Roll Call Chief Content Officer David Ellis.

CQ Roll Call owns Roll Call and Congressional Quarterly. Roll Call merged with CQ in 2009 after the latter company was purchased by The Economist Group, Roll Call's parent company.

The Plain Dealer is the largest newspaper in Ohio. Cleveland.com attracts an average of 6 million unique users every month.

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